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<H1>Social Intelligence<BR>
(<A HREF="http://www.cognitivescience-postgrad.phs.uoa.gr/">M.Sc. in Cognitive Science, University of Athens</A>)</H1>
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<H1>Readings</H1>

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<A NAME="Intro">
<H2>Lecture 1. Introduction</H2>
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<LI><B>M. Drennan</B> (2005). The human science of simulation: A robust hermeneutics for artificial
societies, <I>Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation</I>, 8(1).
<BR><U>Drennan2005.pdf, 23 pages, 138K</U>
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<LI><B>N. Gilbert</B> (2006). When does social simulation need cognitive models?, <I>in: "Cognition and
multi-agent interaction: From cognitive modeling to social simulation"</I>, by R, Sun (Ed.), pp. 428-432.
</I>.
<BR><U>Gilbert2006.pdf, 9 pages, 82K</U>
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<LI><B>C. Goldspink</B> (2002). Methodological implications of complex systems approaches to
sociality: Simulation as a foundation for knowledge,  <I>Journal of Artificial Societies
and Social Simulation</I>, 5(1).
<BR><U>Goldspink2002.pdf, 24 pages, 168K</U>
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<LI><B>A. Guillot, J.-A. Meyer</B> (2000). The animat contribution to cognitive systems research,
<I>Journal of Cognitive Systems Research</I>.
<BR><U>GuillotMeyer2000.pdf, 8 pages, 60K</U>
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<LI><B>J.S. Lansing</B> (2002). "Artificial societies" and the social sciences, <I>Artificial
Life</I>, 8:279-292.
<BR><U>Lansing2002.pdf, 14 pages, 101K</U>
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<LI><B>M.W. Macy, R. Willer (2002). From factors to actors: Computational sociology and
agent-based modeling, <I>Annual Reviews in Sociology</I>, 28:143-166.</B>
<BR><U>MacyWiller2002.pdf, 24 pages, 187K</U>
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<LI>Introduction to the greek edition of <B>H. Maturana & F. Varela</B>'s
<I>"Tree of knowledge"</I>, 1992 (by S.Manousselis).
<BR><U>VarelaByManousselis1992.pdf, 28 pages, 3.5M</U>
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<LI><B>G. Weisbuch</B> (1999). The complex adaptive systems approach to biology, <I>Evolution
and Cognition</I>.
<BR><U>Weisbuch1999.pdf, 11 pages, 109K</U>
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<A NAME="DAI">
<H2>Lecture 2. Distributed artificial intelligence</H2>
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<LI><B>D.D. Corkill</B> (2003). Collaborating software (Blackboard and multi-agent systems and the
future), <I>Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference</I>.
<BR><U>Corkill2003.pdf, 12 pages, 599K</U>
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<LI><B>J. Doran, N. Gilbert</B> (1994). Simulating societies: An introduction, <I>in "Simulating Societies "</I>,
by N. Gilbert and J. Doran, (eds.), pp. 1-18.
<BR><U>DoranGilbert.pdf, 9 pages, 2.38M</U>
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<LI><B>N. Gilbert</B> (2004). Agent-based social simulation: Dealing with complexity, <I>Complex Systems
Society Focus Document</I>.
<BR><U>Gilbert2004.pdf, 14 pages, 281K</U>
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<LI><B>N. Gilbert (2007). Computational social science (Agent-based social simulation),
<I>in: "Agent-based modelling and simulation"</I>, by D. Phan & F. Amblard (Eds.), pp. 115-134.</B>
</I>.
<BR><U>Gilbert2007.pdf, 20 pages, 437K</U>
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<LI><B>P. Singh</B> (2003). Examining the society of mind, <I>Computing and Informatics</I>, 22(5):521-543.
<BR><U>Singh2003.pdf, 23 pages, 158K</U>
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<LI><B>M. Verkama, R.P. Hamalainen, H. Ehtamo</B> (1992). Multi-agent interaction processes: From
oligopoly theory to decentralized artificial intelligence, <I>Group Decision and
Negotiation</I>, 2:137-159.
<BR><U>VerkamaEtAl1992.pdf, 23 pages, 1.21M</U>
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<A NAME="ALife">
<H2>Lecture 3. Sociobiology and artificial life</H2>
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<LI><B>M.A. Bedau</B> (2001). Artificial life, <I>in "Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy
of Computing and Information", by L. Floridi (Ed.)</I>.
<BR><U>Bedau2001.pdf, 24 pages, 98K</U>
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<LI><B>M.A. Bedau et al.</B> (2000). Open problems in artificial life, <I>Artificial Life</I>,
6:373-386.
<BR><U>BedauEtAl2000.pdf, 14 pages, 126K</U>
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<LI><B>A. Dussutour, V. Fourcassié, D. Helbing, J.-L. Deneubourg</B> (2004). Optimal traffic
organization in ants under crowded conditions, <I>Nature</I>, 428:70-73.
<BR><U>DussutourEtAl2004.pdf, 4 pages, 314K</U>
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<LI><B>H. Holcomb, J. Byron</B> (2005). Sociobiology, <I>Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy</I>,
online.
<BR><U>HolcombByron2005.pdf, 12 pages, 187K</U>
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<LI><B>S. Railsback (2001). Concepts from complex adaptive systems as a framework for
individual-based modeling, <I>Ecological Modeling</I>, 139:47-62.</B>
<BR><U>Railsback2001.pdf, 16 pages, 124K</U>
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<LI><B>C. Reynolds</B> (1987). Flocks, herds and schools : A distributed behavioral model,
<I>SIGGRAPH-87</I>, 21(4), 1987.
<BR><U>Reynolds1987.pdf, 13 pages, 120K</U>
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<LI><B>L. Steels</B> (1994). The artificial life roots of artificial intelligence, <I>Artificial 
Life</I>, 1994.
<BR><U>Steels1994.pdf, 87 pages, 400K</U>
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<A NAME="Games">
<H2>Lecture 4. Games</H2>
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<LI><B>L.A. Dugatkin</B> (2002). Cooperation in animals : An evolutionary overview,
<I>Biology and Philosophy</I>, 17:459-476.
<BR><U>Dugatkin2002.pdf, 18 pages, 317K</U>
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<LI><B>W.D. Hamilton</B> (1964a). The genetical evolution of social behaviour I,
<I>Journal of Theoretical Biology</I>, 7:1-16.
<BR><U>Hamilton1964a.pdf, 16 pages, 1.04M</U>
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<LI><B>W.D. Hamilton</B> (1964b). The genetical evolution of social behaviour II,
<I>Journal of Theoretical Biology</I>, 7:17-52.
<BR><U>Hamilton1964b.pdf, 36 pages, 2.69M</U>
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<LI><B>R. Hoffmann (2000). Twenty years on : The evolution of cooperation revisited,
<I>Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation</I>, 3(2).</B>
<BR><U>Hoffmann2000.pdf, 13 pages, 159K</U>
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<LI><B>M.A. Nowak, K. Sigmund</B> (1992). Tit-for-tat in heterogeneous populations, <I>Nature</I>,
355:250-253.
<BR><U>NowakSigmund1992.pdf, 4 pages, 120K</U>
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<LI><B>M.A. Nowak, K. Sigmund</B> (2005). Evolution of indirect reciprocity, <I>Nature</I>,
437:1291-1298.
<BR><U>NowakSigmund2005.pdf, 8 pages, 355K</U>
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<LI><B>K. Sigmund, C. Hauert, M.A. Nowak</B> (2001). Reward and punishment, <I>PNAS</I>,
98(19):19757-10762.
<BR><U>SigmundEtAl2001.pdf, 6 pages, 158K</U>
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<A NAME="SocialNets">
<H2>Lecture 5. Social networks</H2>
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<LI><B>K. Börner, S. Sanyal, A. Vespignani (2008). Network science, <I>Annual Review of
Information Science and Technology</I>, 41(1):537-607.</B>
<BR><U>BoernerEtAl2008.pdf, 58 pages, 882K</U>
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<LI><B>J. Kluever, J. Schmidt</B> (1999). Topology, metrics and dynamics of social systems,
<I>Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation</I>, 2(3).
<BR><U>KlueverSchmidt1999.pdf, 17 pages, 92K</U>
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<LI><B>M.E.J. Newman</B> (2003). The structure and function of complex networks, <I>SIAM Review</I>, 45:167-256.
<BR><U>Newman2003.pdf, 58 pages, 1.19M</U>
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<A NAME="SocialCognition">
<H2>Lecture 6. Social Cognition</H2>
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<LI><B>J. Call, M. Tomasello</B> (2008). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later,
<I>Trends in Cognitive Sciences</I>, 12(5):187-192.
<BR><U>CallTomasello2008.pdf, 6 pages, 275K</U>
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<LI><B>C.K. Hemelrijk</B> (2002). Despotic societies, sexual attraction and the emergence of male
'tolerance': An agent-based model, <I>Behaviour</I>, 139:729-747.
<BR><U>Hemelrijk2002.pdf, 19 pages, 369K</U>
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<LI><B>E. Herrmann, J. Call, M.V. Hernández-Lloreda, B. Hare, M. Tomasello (2007). Humans
have evolved specialized skills of social cognition: The cultural intelligence hypothesis,
<I>Science</I>, 317:1360-1366.</B>
<BR><U>HerrmannEtAl2007.pdf, 7 pages, 202K</U>
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<LI><B>L. Marsh, C. Onof</B> (2008). Stigmergic epistemology, stigmergic cognition, <I>Cognitive
Systems Research</I>, 9:136-149.
<BR><U>MarshOnof2008.pdf, 14 pages, 231K</U>
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<LI><B>E. van der Vaart, R. Verbrugge</B> (2008). Agent-based models of animal cognition: A proposal
and a prototype, <I>Proceedings of the 7th international joint conference on Autonomous agents and multiagent systems
(AAMAS-08)</I>, pp. 1145-1152.
<BR><U>VanDerVaartVerbrugge2008.pdf, 8 pages, 800K</U>
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<A NAME="Language">
<H2>Lecture 7. Communication and language</H2>
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<LI><B>A.D. Digh</B> (1994). The greek miracle: An artificial life simulation of the effects of
literacy on the dynamics of communication, <I>M.Sc. Thesis, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville</I>, December 1994.
<BR><U>Digh1994.pdf, 114 pages, 386K</U>
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<LI><B>B. MacLennan</B> (1999). The emergence of communication through synthetic evolution,
in <I>"Advances in evolutionary synthesis of neural systems"</I>, by V. Honavar, M. Patel,
K. Balakrishnana.
<BR><U>MacLennan1999.pdf, 24 pages, 262K</U>
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<LI><B>M. Mirolli. D. Parisi</B> (2006). Talking to oneself as a selective pressure for the
emergence of language, <I>Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on the Evolution of Language</I>, pp. 214-221.
<BR><U>MirolliParisi2006.pdf, 8 pages, 122K</U>
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<LI><B>S. Nolfi, M. Mirolli</B> (2010). Evolving communication in embodied agents: Assessment
and open challenges, <I>in Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents</I>, pp. 215-220.
<BR><U>NolfiMirolli2010.pdf, 7 pages, 94K</U>
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<LI><B>D. Parisi, M. Mirolli</B> (2006). The emergence of language: How to simulate it, <I>in "Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication"</I>, by C. Lyon, C. Nehaniv and A. Cangelosi (Eds.).
<BR><U>ParisiMirolli.pdf, 15 pages, 54K</U>
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<LI><B>A. Perfors (2002). Simulated evolution of language: A review of the field, <I>Journal of
Artificial Societies and Social Simulation</I>, 5(2).</B>
<BR><U>Perfors2002.pdf, 61 pages, 255K</U>
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<LI><B>A. Seth</B> (2002). Modeling group foraging: Individual suboptimality, interference and a kind
of matching, <I>Adaptive Behavior</I>, 9(2):67-90.
<BR><U>Seth2002.pdf, 23 pages, 361K</U>
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<LI><B>L. Steels</B> (1997). The synthetic modeling of language origins, <I>Evolution of Communication</I>,
1(1):1-34.
<BR><U>Steels1997.pdf, 32 pages, 119K</U>
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<LI><B>L. Steels, F. Kaplan</B> (1998). Spontaneous lexicon change, <I>Proceedings COLING-ACL98</I>,
pp. 1243-1249.
<BR><U>SteelsKaplan1998.pdf, 8 pages, 275K</U>
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<LI><B>K. Wagner, J.A. Reggia, J. Uriagereka, G.S. Wilkinson</B> (2003). Progress in the
simulation of emergent communication and language, <I>Adaptive Behavior</I>, 11(1):37-69.
<BR><U>WagnerEtAl2003.pdf, 33 pages, 600K</U>
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<A NAME="Culture">
<H2>Lecture 8. Culture</H2>
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<LI><B>S. Atran, N.O. Ross, D.L. Medin</B> (2005). The cultural mind: Environmental decision
making and cultural modeling within and across populations, <I>Psychological Review</I>,
112(4):744-776.
<BR><U>AtranEtAl2005.pdf, 33 pages, 300K</U>
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<LI><B>R. Axelrod (1997). The dissemination of culture: A model with local convergence and global
polarization, <I>Journal of Conflict Resolution</I>, 41(2):203-226.</B>
<BR><U>Axelrod1997.pdf, 24 pages, 684K</U>
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<LI><B>P. Ballonoff</B> (2004). Why a theory of history is possible, <I>Cybernetics and Systems</I>,
35(2):259-274.
<BR><U>Ballonoff2004.pdf, 16 pages, 139K</U>
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<LI><B>J. Doran, M. Palmer, N. Gilbert, P. Mellars</B> (1994). The EOS project: Modelling upper
paleolithic social change, <I>in "Simulating Societies"</I>, by N. Gilbert, J. Doran (eds.), pp. 195-221.
<BR><U>DoranEtAl1994.pdf, 14 pages, 3.56M</U>
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<LI><B>T.A. Kohler, G.J. Gumerman, R.G. Reynolds</B> (2005). Simulating ancient societies,
<I>Scientific American</I>, pp.77-84, July 2005.
<BR><U>KohlerEtAl2005.pdf, 8 pages, 592K</U>
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<LI><B>K.N. Laland, V.M. Janik</B> (2006). The animal cultures debate, <I>Trends in Ecology and
Evolution</I>, 21(10):542-547.
<BR><U>LalandJanik2006.pdf, 6 pages, 574K</U>
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<LI><B>D. Parisi, F. Antinucci, F. Natale, F. Cecconi</B> (2008). Simulating the expansion of
farming and the differentiation of European languages, <I>in "Origin and evolution of languages:
Approaches, models, paradigms"</I>, by B. Laks and D. Simeoni (eds.).
<BR><U>ParisiEtAl2008.pdf, 41 pages, 568K</U>
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<A NAME="Economies">
<H2>Lecture 9. Economies</H2>
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<LI><B>C.K. Chan, K. Steiglitz</B> (2008). An agent-based model of a minimal economy, <I>Working Paper, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University</I>.
<BR><U>ChanSteiglitz2008.pdf, 33 pages, 465K</U>
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<LI><B>J. Derveeuw, B Beaufils, P. Mathieu, O. Brandouy</B> (2007). Un modèle d'interaction
réaliste pour la simulation des marchés financiers, <I>Actes Quatrièmes Journées Francophones
"Modèles formels de l'interaction"</I>.
<BR><U>DerveeuwEtAl2007.pdf, 11 pages, 168K</U>
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<LI><B>H. Gintis</B> (2006). The emergence of a price system from decentralized bilateral exchange,
<I>The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics</I>.
<BR><U>Gintis2005.pdf, 12 pages, 382K</U>
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<LI><B>R.G. Reynolds, T.A. Kohler, Z. Kobti</B> (2003). The effects of generalized reciprocal
exchange on the resilience of social networks: An example from the prehispanic Mesa Verde region,
<I>Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory</I>, 9:227-254.
<BR><U>ReynoldsEtAl2003.pdf, 28 pages, 1.11M</U>
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<LI><B>D. Ross</B> (2008). Economics, cognitive science and social cognition, <I>Cognitive Systems
Research</I>, 9:125-135.
<BR><U>Ross2008.pdf, 11 pages, 168K</U>
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<LI><B>V. Saggau, P. Patelli</B> (2004). Information diffusion and decision making in artificial
consumer societies, <I>Proceedings of the Conference of the European Social Simulation Association</I>.
<BR><U>SaggauPatelli2004.pdf, 12 pages, 305K</U>
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<LI><B>L. Tesfatsion (2002). Agent-based computational economics: Growing economies from the
bottom up, <I>Artificial Life</I>, 8:55-82.</B>
<BR><U>Tesfatsion2002.pdf, 28 pages, 189K</U>
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<A NAME="PoliticsReligion">
<H2>Lecture 10. Politics and Religion</H2>
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<LI><B>S.J. Alam, F. Hillebrandt, M. Schillo</B> (2005). Sociological implications of gift exchange
in multiagent systems, <I>Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation</I>, 8(3).
<BR><U>AlamEtAl2005.pdf, 30 pages, 817K</U>
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<LI><B>L.-E. Cederman (2003). Modeling the size of wars: From billiard balls to sandpiles,
<I>American Political Science Review</I>, 97(1):135-150.</B>
<BR><U>Cederman2003.pdf, 16 pages, 2.92M</U>
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<LI><B>J. Doran</B> (2005). Iruba: An agent-based model of the guerrilla war process, <I>Proceedings
of the Conference of the European Social Simulation Association</I>.
<BR><U>Doran2005.pdf, 8 pages, 130K</U>
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<LI><B>J. Dow</B> (2008). Is religion an evolutionary adaptation?, <I>Journal of Artificial Societies
and Social Simulation</I>, 11(2).
<BR><U>Dow2008.pdf, 25 pages, 407K</U>
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<LI><B>J.M. Epstein</B> (2002). Modeling civil violence: An agent-based computational approach,
<I>PNAS</I>, 99, Suppl. 3, 7243-7250.
<BR><U>Epstein2002.pdf, 8 pages, 1.19M</U>
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<LI><B>A. Norenzayan, A.F. Shariff</B> (2008). The origin and evolution of religious prosociality,
<I>Science</I>, 322:58-62.
<BR><U>NorenzayanShariff2008.pdf, 5 pages, 314K</U>
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<LI><B>S. Raczynski</B> (2004). Simulation of the dynamic interactions between terror and anti-terror
organizational structures, <I>Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation</I>, 7(2).
<BR><U>Raczynski2004.pdf, 22 pages, 588K</U>
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<A NAME="Misc">
<H2>Lecture 11. Unifying approaches</H2>
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<LI><B>J.M. Baldwin</B> (1896). A new factor in evolution, <I>American Naturalist</I>, 30:441-451.
<BR><U>Baldwin1896.pdf, 20 pages, 95K</U>
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<LI><B>J. Henrich, R. McElreath</B> (2003). The evolution of cultural evolution, <I>Evolutionary
Anthropology</I>, 12:123-135.
<BR><U>HenrichMcElreath2003.pdf, 13 pages, 184K</U>
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<LI><B>J. Gintis (2007). A framework for the unification of the behavioral sciences,
<I>Behavioral and Brain Sciences</I>, 30(10):1-61.</B>
<BR><U>Gintis2007.pdf, 61 pages, 740K</U>
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<LI><B>R.D. Masters</B> (1991). The changing nature of the social sciences (Multiple book review),
<I>Biology and Philosophy</I>, 6:377-393.
<BR><U>Masters1991.pdf, 17 pages, 1.03M</U>
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<LI><B>A. Mesoudi</B> (2007). A  Darwinian theory of cultural evolution can promote an evolutionary
synthesis for the social sciences, <I>Biological Theory</I>, 2(3):263-275.
<BR><U>Mesoudi2007.pdf, 13 pages, 426K</U>
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<LI><B>M.J. Rossano </B> (2009). The archaeology of consciousness, Chapter 4, <I>in "Cognitive archaeology
and human evolution"</I>, by S.A. De Beaune, F.L. Coolidge, T. Wynn (eds.).
<BR><U>Rossano2009.pdf, 6 pages, 3.90M</U>
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