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Simulating Cooperative Behaviors in a Subsistence Population : = An Agent-Based Modeling Approach.

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Title/Author:	Simulating Cooperative Behaviors in a Subsistence Population :/
Reminder of title:	An Agent-Based Modeling Approach.
Author:	Phelps, Julia.
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Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11.
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ISBN:	9798379528232

Simulating Cooperative Behaviors in a Subsistence Population : = An Agent-Based Modeling Approach.
Phelps, Julia.

Simulating Cooperative Behaviors in a Subsistence Population :An Agent-Based Modeling Approach. - 1 online resource (146 pages)

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 84-11.

Thesis (M.S.)--Arizona State University, 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Humans cooperate at levels unseen in other species. Identifying the adaptive mechanisms driving this unusual behavior, as well as how these mechanisms interact to create complex cooperative patterns, remains an open question in anthropology. One impediment to such investigations is that complete, long-term datasets of human cooperative behaviors in small-scale societies are hard to come by; such field research is often hindered both by humans' long lifespans and by the difficulties of collecting data in remote societies. In this study, I attempted to overcome these methodological challenges by simulating individual human cooperative behaviors in a small-scale population. Using an agent-based model tuned to population-level measurements from a real-life marine subsistence population in the southern Philippines, I generated dynamic daily cooperative behaviors in a hypothetical subsistence population over a period of 1500 years and 42 overlapping generations. Preliminary findings from the model suggest that, while the agent-based model broadly captured a number of characteristic population-level patterns in the subsistence population, it did not fully replicate nuances of the population's observed cooperative behaviors. In particular, statistical models of the simulated data identified reciprocity-based and need-based cooperative behaviors but did not detect kinship-motivated cooperation, despite the fact that kin cooperation traits evolved positively and reciprocity cooperation traits evolved negatively over time in the agent population. It is possible that this discrepancy reflects a complex interaction between kinship and reciprocity in the agent-based model. On the other hand, it may also suggest that these types of statistical models, which are frequently utilized in human cooperation studies in the anthropological literature, do not reliably discriminate between kin-based and reciprocity-based cooperation mechanisms when both exist in a population. Even so, the completeness of the simulated data enabled use of more complex statistical methodologies which were able to disentangle the relative effects of cooperative mechanisms operating at different decision levels. By addressing remaining pattern-matching issues, future iterations of the agent-based model may prove to be a useful tool for validating empirical research and investigating novel hypotheses about the evolution and maintenance of cooperative behaviors in human populations.

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