Emergent Properties in Small-Scale Societies

Artificial Life

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 419-434

  Read, Dwight W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Demography; Emergent properties; Hunter gatherers; Kinship; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

RESOURCE DENSITY;

SOCIAL ASPECTS;

ARTICLE; ETHNOLOGY; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; POPULATION DENSITY; STATISTICS;

BIRTH INTERVALS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MARRIAGE; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 0345328159     PISSN: 10645462     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/106454603322694852     Document Type: Conference Paper

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