Hong et al. reply to Walliser

Abstract

We find it absurd that Walliser [1] essentially used the same analysis and obtained identical results as reported in [3], yet arrived at different conclusions. Namely, based on an incomplete theory and using erroneous arguments, he not only disputes the original results [2], but also claims them wrong. A more complete theory and much more detailed studies were published in [3], from which we concluded that such results support the mechanism of segregation introduced in ref. [2]. We want to make it clear that Walliser obtained partial results of ref. [3] and arrived at the opposite conclusion. In the following we discuss his comment and its relevance, but at the same time point out what went wrong with his arguments.