AGENTS OF CHANGE: MODELING BIOCULTURAL EVOLUTION IN UPPER PLEISTOCENE WESTERN EURASIA
The complex interactions between social learning and biological change are key to understanding the human species and its origins. Yet paleoanthropological models often focus only on the evolution of the human genome and physical characters, while behavior is treated as an epiphenomenon of biological evolution. We present the results of a series of experiments that use computational models, parametrized with new archaeological data, to simulate the complex dynamics of human biocultural evolution in the changing environment of OIS (Oxygen Isotope Stage) 3 of western Eurasia (~58000–27000 ka). These experiments allow us to compare alternative trajectories of human evolution, resulting from differing combinations of socioecological behaviors and biological conditions, against the paleoanthropological record.
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2012
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Authors: | BARTON, C. MICHAEL ; RIEL-SALVATORE, JULIEN |
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Advances in Complex Systems (ACS). - World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., ISSN 1793-6802. - Vol. 15.2012, 01, p. 1150003-1
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World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd. |
Subject: | Modeling | Neanderthals | modern human origins | human ecology | Pleistocene hominins | land-use | gene-culture coevolution |
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