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Title Dynamics in human and primate societies : agent-based modeling of social and spatial processes / editors, Timothy A. Kohler, George J. Gumerman
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 398 pages) : illustrations
Series Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity
Proceedings volume in the Santa Fe Institute studies in the sciences of complexity.
Contents Putting social sciences together again : an introduction to the volume / Timothy A. Kohler -- Nonlinear and synthetic models for primate societies / Irenaeus J.A. te Boekhorst, Charlotte K. Hemelrijk -- The evolution of cooperation in an ecological context : an agent-based model / John W. Pepper, Barbara B. Smuts -- Evolution of inference / Brian Skyrms -- Trajectories to complexity in artificial societies : rationality, belief, and emotions / Jim E. Doran -- MAGICAL computer simulation of Mesolithic foraging / Mark Winter Lake -- Be there then : a modeling approach to settlement determinants and spatial efficiency among late ancestral Pueblo populations of the Mesa Verde region, U.S. Southwest / Timothy A. Kohler, James Kresl, Carla Van West [and others] -- Understanding Anasazi culture change through agent-based modeling / Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, Joshua M. Epstein [and others] -- Anti-chaos, common property, and the emergence of cooperation / J. Stephen Lansing -- The political impact of marriage in a virtual Polynesian society / Cathy A. Small -- The impact of raiding on settlement patterns in the northern Valley of Oaxaca : an approach using decision trees / Robert G. Reynolds -- The fractal house of pharaoh : ancient Egypt as a complex adaptive system, a trial formulation / Mark Lehner -- Modeling sociality : the view from Europe / Nigel Gilbert -- Agent-based modeling of small-scale societies : state of the art and future prospects / Henry T. Wright
Summary "Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies presents agent-based modeling studies from archaeologists, ethnologists, sociologists, philosophers, and primatologists that examine these social and spatial dynamics without ignoring their complexity or compromising replicability. With an emphasis on small-scale societies in an effort to maximize realism in the modeling efforts applied to social evolution, this volume is an important step toward an actor-oriented, cross-disciplinary approach to understanding human behavior over time. Presenting recent advances in software and algorithms for modeling societies, Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies is an ideal book for professionals in archaeology and cultural anthropology as well as a valuable tool for those studying primatology and computer science."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Social evolution -- Mathematical models
Social evolution -- Computer simulation
Social history -- To 500 -- Mathematical models
Social history -- To 500 -- Computer simulation
Animal societies -- Mathematical models
Animal societies -- Computer simulation
Social behavior in animals -- Mathematical models
Social behavior in animals -- Computer simulation
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Social behavior in animals -- Mathematical models
Social evolution -- Mathematical models
Social history -- Mathematical models
Sociaal diergedrag.
Modellen.
Computersimulaties.
Form Electronic book
Author Kohler, Timothy A. (Timothy Alan), 1949- editor
Gumerman, George J., editor.
ISBN 9780195351194
0195351193
9780197561492
0197561497
1280833270
9781280833274