A Life-Cycle Model of Human Social Groups Produces a U-Shaped Distribution in Group Size.

One of the central puzzles in the study of sociocultural evolution is how and why transitions from small-scale human groups to large-scale, hierarchically more complex ones occurred. Here we develop a spatially explicit agent-based model as a first step towards understanding the ecological dynamics...

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Main Authors: Gul Deniz Salali, Harvey Whitehouse, Michael E Hochberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4575040?pdf=render