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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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Autores principales: Salali, Gul Deniz, Whitehouse, Harvey, Hochberg, Michael E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4575040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26381745
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138496