Browsing Applied Mathematics by Subject "Evolution"

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Disease Dynamics And Costly Punishment Can Foster Socially Imposed Monogamy

Bauch, Chris T.; McElreath, Richard (Nature Publishing Group, 2016-04-01)

Socially imposed monogamy in humans is an evolutionary puzzle because it requires costly punishment by those who impose the norm. Moreover, most societies were-and are-polygynous; yet many larger human societies transitioned ...
Dynamics Of The Global Wheat Trade Network And Resilience To Shocks

Fair, Kathyrn R.; Bauch, Chris T.; Anand, Madhur (Nature Publishing Group, 2017-08-03)

Agri-food trade networks are increasingly vital to human well-being in a globalising world. Models can help us gain insights into trade network dynamics and predict how they might respond to future disturbances such as ...
Error-Tolerant Coding and the Genetic Code

Gutfraind, Alexander (University of Waterloo, 2006)

The following thesis is a project in mathematical biology building upon the so-called "error minimization hypothesis" of the genetic code. After introducing the biological context of this hypothesis, I proceed to develop ...