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