Author: Kohler, Timothy A. & Gumerman, George J.; editors:
Title: Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes
Description: New York / Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. orig.boards. 24x16cm, xiii, 398 pp. Textual maps,graphs & tables. Minor rubbing. Small dent to binding edge. VG. ¶ Contains 14 papers. Includes: T.A. Kohler "Putting Social Sciences Together Again: An Introduction to the Volume"; I.J.A. te Boekorst & C.K. Hemelrijk "Nonlinear & Synthetic Models for Primate Societies"; J.W. Pepper & B.B. Smuts "The Evolution of Cooperation in an Ecological Context:An Agent-Based Model"; B. Skyrms "Evolution of Inference"; J.E. Doran " Trajectories to Complexity in Articifial Societies: Rationality, Belief, & Emotions"; M.W. Lake "MAGICAL Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging"; T.A. Kohler; et al: "Be There Then: A Modeling Approach to Settlement Determinants & Spatial Efficiency Among Late Ancestral Pueblo Populations of the Mesa Verde Region"; J.S. Dean; et al: "Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-based Modeling"; J.S. Lansing "Anti-Chaos, Common Property, & the Emergence of Cooperation"; C.A. Small "The Political Impact of Marriage on a Virtual Polynesian Society"; R.G. Reynolds "The Imapct of Raiding on Settlement Patterns in the Northern Valley of Oaxaca: An Approach Using Decision Trees"; M. Lehner "The Fractal House of Pharoah: Ancient Egypt as a Complex Adaptation System, a Trial Formulation"; N. Gilbert "Modeling Sociality: The View from Europe"; H. Wright "Agent-Based Modeling of Small-Scale Societies: State of the Art and Future Prospects

Keywords: Mathematical Anthropology, Mathematics Spatial, Models Modeling, Social Evolution, Computer Simulation, Animal Societies, Primate Society, Agent-Based, Human Evolutionary