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Simplicity is Complicated: On the Effort of Creating and Maintaining Equality
Suomen Antropologi, 2023 A key point David Graeber and David Wengrow make in their mammoth work, The Dawn of Everything (2021), is that we humans are not by default redisposed to hierarchy or equality, but are first and foremost a socially creative species.
Tuomas Tammisto
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Network-based ranking in social systems: three challenges [PDF]
, 2020 Ranking algorithms are pervasive in our increasingly digitized societies, with important real-world applications including recommender systems, search engines, and influencer marketing practices.
Lü, Linyuan, Mariani, Manuel S.
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Belleten, 2008 The Ubaid culture, which takes its name from Tell-al Ubaid, plays a crucial role in the process of urbanization in the Near East.
Alev Erarslan
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Environmental Dimensions of Zionisms in the Negev and West Bank
Babylon, 2016 The relationship between human societies and the environment is multidimensional and complex. Human societies are both shaped and constrained by the environment in which they exist, and in turn act to shape and alter that environment to suit their own ...
Alice Gray
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Introduction. From Transcribing Orality to Oral Practices of Writing
Martor, 2022 This article presents the special issue of Martor journal that problematizes the complex relationship between the written and the oral in the production of meaning that defines “traditions,” community and group relations, in different contexts of change (
Anamaria Iuga +3 more
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A multiplex centrality metric for complex social networks: sex, social status, and family structure predict multiplex centrality in rhesus macaques [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Members of a society interact using a variety of social behaviors, giving rise to a multi-faceted and complex social life. For the study of animal behavior, quantifying this complexity is critical for understanding the impact of social life on animals ...
Brianne Beisner +5 more
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The Emergence of Norms via Contextual Agreements in Open Societies
, 2015 This paper explores the emergence of norms in agents' societies when agents play multiple -even incompatible- roles in their social contexts simultaneously, and have limited interaction ranges.
AG Barto +9 more
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e-cadernos ces, 2013 Rustow defined National Unity as the sole prerequisite to a transition towards democracy. Later, a second prerequisite was introduced: the Modern State. Despite the importance of these two prerequisites, there is a need to introduce a third prerequisite ...
Tiago Ferreira Lopes
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Social behavior and the superorganism: Implications for disease and stability in complex animal societies and Colony Collapse Disorder in Honeybees [PDF]
Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems, 2015 Sociability, mass response to threat, food production and food sharing and an adaptable communication system are a suite of traits involved in the evolution of complex society in animals.
Niccolo Caldararo
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Resource dependent branching processes and the envelope of societies
, 2015 Since its early beginnings, mankind has put to test many different society forms, and this fact raises a complex of interesting questions. The objective of this paper is to present a general population model which takes essential features of any society ...
Bruss, F. Thomas, Duerinckx, Mitia
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