Still stratus not altocumulus: Further evidence against the date/party hub distinction

Abstract

In the new filtered-HC dataset, as in others, the two definitional criteria of date/party hubs find no support. Four corollary points of evidence - rate of evolution, effect of deletion on network topology, genetic connectivity, and hub status quo - also find no support. That across multiple datasets, and under multiple different tests, we repeatedly find no evidence for the date/party hypothesis suggests that network hubs do not fall into discrete classes. © 2007 Batada et al.