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Spotlight on mobility

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The complexity in patterns of human mobility, migration and communication has been difficult to unpack. Researchers have now come up with a simple theory that captures the intricacy of such phenomena. See Letter p.96

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Figure 1: Human-mobility pattern in the United Kingdom and Ireland.

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  1. and in the Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Dirk Brockmann is at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208-3125, USA.,

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Brockmann, D. Spotlight on mobility. Nature 484, 40–41 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/484040a

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