When you begin to use these tools to map networks, you can make a number of discoveries. For example, human beings manifest something known as degree of sortativity; highly connected nodes are preferentially attached to other highly connected nodes. It turns out that degree of sortative networks confer on a population a relative immunity to epidemic diseases. And I think they have those benefits precisely because natural selection worked for us.

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