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Publisher's Note: Lack of parentheses.

Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 16 Oct 2012 at 22:19 GMT

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http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0023370#article1.body1.sec1.p1

There are two instances in the article where quotations were incorrectly not noted as such.

1. The text from "The theory of random ..." to "... non rigorous arguments." is a verbatim citation taken from Durrett's book (mentioned as reference [2]).

2. The text from "Social networks ..." to "two members. [...]" is a verbatim citation from Wikipedia (mentioned as reference [10]).

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