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Monkey and cell-phone-user mobilities scale similarly

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One challenge in modelling human movement is understanding recurrent patterns of space use that are not well captured by the random-walk models applied so successfully to diffusing particles. In an elegant paper, Chaoming Song et al.1 showed that human mobility patterns exhibit unusual scaling laws that may be explained by a combination of random exploration and preferential return to previously visited locations.

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    Peter D. Walsh

  2. Instituto de Física and Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510, DF, Mexico

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  3. Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Apartado Postal 0843-03092, Panamá, Republic of Panama

    Margaret C. Crofoot

  4. Department of Migration and Immunoecology, Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, 78315, Radolfzell, Germany

    Margaret C. Crofoot

  5. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, 08544, New Jersey, USA

    Margaret C. Crofoot

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Walsh, P., Boyer, D. & Crofoot, M. Monkey and cell-phone-user mobilities scale similarly. Nature Phys 6, 929–930 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1875

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