About the Authors

Alexander Isakov

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Isakov, Amelia Holcomb

Affiliation Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Amelia Holcomb

Contributed equally to this work with: Alexander Isakov, Amelia Holcomb

Affiliation Department of Mathematics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Luke Glowacki

Affiliations Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Nicholas A. Christakis

nicholas.christakis@yale.edu

Affiliations Department of Sociology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale Institute for Network Science, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AI AH LG NAC. Performed the experiments: AH. Analyzed the data: AI AH LG NAC. Wrote the paper: AI AH LG NAC.