HOMINIDS: An agent-based spatial simulation model to evaluate behavioral patterns of early Pleistocene hominids

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 221, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 738-760

  Griffith, Cameron S ^a   Long, Byron L ^a   Sept, Jeanne M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based models; Human evolution; Paleoecology

Indexed keywords

AGENT BASED; AGENT-BASED MODEL; BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS; DATA SETS; DESIGN DOCUMENTS; EAST AFRICA; ECOLOGICAL SETTINGS; FIELD DATA; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIORS; HUMAN AGENT; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MODELING ENVIRONMENTS; ON DYNAMICS; OPEN SOURCE IMPLEMENTATION; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SPATIAL SIMULATION; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT;

ECOLOGY; NUTRITION;

BIOLOGY;

ANATOMY; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; DATA SET; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOD PREFERENCE; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HOMINID; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PALEOECOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

EAST AFRICA;

HOMINIDAE; PARANTHROPUS BOISEI;

EID: 74549178523     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.11.009     Document Type: Article

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