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Homophyly/Kinship Model: Naturally Evolving Networks.

Angsheng Li¹, Jiankou Li^1,2, Yicheng Pan^1,3

¹State Key Laboratory of Computer Science, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, P. R. China.

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Homophily/kinship drives natural community formation. Increasing this affinity enhances network stability and cooperation emergence in evolutionary games, validating Darwinian principles.

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Area of Science:

Network science
Evolutionary biology
Sociology

Background:

Understanding natural community formation and evolution is challenging.
Homophily/kinship is hypothesized as a key intrinsic mechanism.

Purpose of the Study:

Propose a homophily/kinship model for network analysis.
Introduce the affinity exponent concept.
Investigate network properties and cooperation emergence.

Main Methods:

Developed a homophily/kinship network model.
Introduced the affinity exponent.
Analyzed network topological, probabilistic, and combinatorial properties.
Applied the structure entropy minimization principle.

Main Results:

Model networks exhibit key properties.
Robustness and stability increase with affinity exponent.
Reciprocity decreases as affinity exponent increases.
Homophily/kinship and reciprocity ensure cooperation emergence in evolutionary games.

Conclusions:

Homophily/kinship is a fundamental mechanism for natural communities.
The affinity exponent quantifies community structure and stability.
Structure entropy minimization effectively detects natural communities across diverse networks.