About the Authors

Ginestra Bianconi

Affiliation School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

Kun Zhao

Affiliation Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Irene A. Chen

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

Martin A. Nowak

martin_nowak@harvard. edu

Affiliation Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Department of Mathematics, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GB MAN. Performed the experiments: GB KZ MAN. Analyzed the data: GB KZ IAC MAN. Wrote the paper: GB IAC MAN.