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.