<h1 class="parseasinTitle"><span id="btAsinTitle"><font size="5">Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings) (Paperback)</font></span></h1><p><span>by <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_1?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Timothy%20A.%20Kohler"><font color="#003399">Timothy A. Kohler</font></a> (Editor), <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=ntt_athr_dp_sr_2?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=George%20G.%20Gumerman"><font color="#003399">George G. Gumerman</font></a> (Editor) </span></p><p><span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0195131681/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link"><img id="prodImage" height="240" alt="Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies: Agent-Based Modeling of Social and Spatial Processes (Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Complexity Proceedings)" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/412WI1Cx5QL._SL500_BO2,204,203,200_AA219_PIsitb-sticker-dp-arrow,TopRight,-24,-23_SH20_OU01_.jpg" width="240" border="0"/></a></span></p><span><li><b>Paperback:</b> 416 pages </li><li><b>Publisher:</b> Oxford University Press, USA (February 10, 2000) </li><li><b>Language:</b> English </li><li><strong>Product Description<br/></strong>As part of the SFI series, this book presents the most up-to-date research in the study of human and primate societies, presenting recent advances in software and algorithms for modeling societies. It also addresses case studies that have applied agent-based modeling approaches in archaeology, cultural anthropology, primatology, and sociology. Many things set this book apart from any other on modeling in the social sciences, including the emphasis on small-scale societies and the attempts to maximize realism in the modeling efforts applied to social problems and questions. It is an ideal book for professionals in archaeology or cultural anthropology as well as a valuable tool for those studying primatology or computer science. <br/><br/><b>About the Author</b><br/>Timothy A. Kohler is at Washington State University. George G. Gummerman is at University of Arizona</li><li> </li><li><strong><font size="4">Contents</font></strong><br/>Preface xi<br/>Putting Social Sciences Together Again: An Introduction to the<br/>Volume<br/>Timothy A. Kohler 1<br/>Nonlinear and Synthetic Models for Primate Societies<br/>Irenaeus J. A. te Boekhorst and Charlotte K. Hemelrijk 19<br/>The Evolution of Cooperation in an Ecological Context: An Agent-<br/>Based Model<br/>John W. Pepper and Barbara B. Smuts 45<br/>Evolution of Inference<br/>Brian Skyrms 77<br/>Trajectories to Complexity in Artificial Societies: Rationality, Belief,<br/>and Emotions<br/>Jim E. Doran 89<br/>MAGICAL Computer Simulation of Mesolithic Foraging<br/>Mark Winter Lake 107<br/>Be There Then: A Modeling Approach to Settlement Determinants<br/>and Spatial Efficiency Among Late Ancestral Pueblo Populations of<br/>the Mesa Verde Region, U.S. Southwest<br/>Timothy A. Kohler, James Kresl, Qarla Van West, Eric<br/>Carr, and Richard H. Wilshusen 145<br/>Understanding Anasazi Culture Change Through Agent-Based<br/>Modeling<br/>Jeffrey S. Dean, George J. Gumerman, Joshua M. Epstein,<br/>Robert L. Axtell, Alan C. Swedlund, Miles T. Parker, and<br/>Steven McCarroll 179<br/>Dynamics in Human and Primate Societies, edited by T. Kohler and<br/>G. Gumerman, Oxford University Press, 1999. ixi<br/>i<br/>Contents<br/>Anti-Chaos, Common Property, and the Emergence of Cooperation<br/>J, Stephen Lansing 207<br/>The Political Impact of Marriage in a Virtual Polynesian Society<br/>Cathy A. Small 225<br/>The Impact of Raiding on Settlement Patterns in the Northern Valley<br/>of Oaxaca: An Approach Using Decision Trees<br/>Robert G. Reynolds 251<br/>The Fractal House of Pharaoh: Ancient Egypt as a Complex Adaptive<br/>System, a Trial Formulation<br/>Mark Lehner 275<br/>Modeling Sociality: The View from Europe<br/>Nigel Gilbert 355<br/>Agent-Based Modeling of Small-Scale Societies: State of the Art and<br/>Future Prospects<br/>Henry T. Wright 373<br/>Index 387</li></span>