Browsing Harvard Medical School by FAS Department "Organismic and Evolutionary Biology"
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The Evolution of Homophily
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)Biologists have devoted much attention to assortative mating or homogamy, the tendency for sexual species to mate with similar others. In contrast, there has been little theoretical work on the broader phenomenon of ... -
Evolution of In-Group Favoritism
(Nature Publishing Group, 2012)In-group favoritism is a central aspect of human behavior. People often help members of their own group more than members of other groups. Here we propose a mathematical framework for the evolution of in-group favoritism ... -
Genome-Wide Scans Provide Evidence for Positive Selection of Genes Implicated in Lassa Fever
(The Royal Society, 2012)Rapidly evolving viruses and other pathogens can have an immense impact on human evolution as natural selection acts to increase the prevalence of genetic variants providing resistance to disease. With the emergence of ...