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Optimal Strategy in Basketball
Brian Skinner, Matthew Goldman
This book chapter reviews some of the major principles associated with optimal strategy in basketball. In particular, we consider the principles of allocative efficiency (optimal a…
q-bio.PE2015
Mathematical toy model inspired by the problem of the adaptive origins of the sexual orientation continuum
Brian Skinner
Same-sex sexual behavior is ubiquitous in the animal kingdom, but its adaptive origins remain a prominent puzzle. Here I suggest the possibility that same-sex sexual behavior arise…
q-bio.PE2015
Spatial structures in a simple model of population dynamics for parasite-host interactions
J. J. Dong, B. Skinner, N. Breecher +2
Spatial patterning can be crucially important for understanding the behavior of interacting populations. Here we investigate a simple model of parasite and host populations in whic…