| Article ID: | iaor20073693 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 560 |
| End Page Number: | 567 |
| Publication Date: | May 2005 |
| Journal: | Operations Research |
| Authors: | Pollock Stephen M., Epelman Marina A., Netter Brian, Low Bobbi S. |
| Keywords: | programming: quadratic |
No good formal arguments exist for a central question in biology: Why, in species that have sexual reproduction, are there usually only ‘males’ and ‘females’? We present a nonlinear optimization model that supports the conclusion that having only two sexes maximizes long-run viability.