Emergent Properties in Small-Scale Societies
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Emergent Properties in Small-Scale Societies
A multi-agent simulation is used to explore the relationship between the micro and the macro levels in small-scale societies. The simulation demonstrates, using an African hunter-gatherer group (the !Kung san) as a case study, the way in which population stability may arise from culturally framed, micro-level decision making by women about spacing of births. According to the simulation, populat...
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عنوان ژورنال: Artificial Life
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1064-5462,1530-9185
DOI: 10.1162/106454603322694852