Computer simulation in human population studies (Studies in anthropology) - Hardcover

Bennett Dyke

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0127851852 ISBN 13: 9780127851853

Publisher: Academic Press, 1973

Synopsis

Computer Simulation in Human Population Studies contains the proceedings of a conference held at Pennsylvania State University on June 12-14, 1972, under the sponsorship of the Social Science Research Council. The conference provided a forum for discussing the application of computer simulation techniques to human population studies and organized topics around four anthropology and social systems; genetics and adaptive systems; demography; and simulation methodology.Comprised of 23 chapters, this volume begins with an analysis of two tests of computer the effect of an incest taboo on population viability, and the effect of age differences between spouses on the skewing of their consanguineal relationships. The reader is then introduced to computer simulation of incest prohibition and clan proscription rules in closed, finite population; an empirical perspective on simulation models of human population; and models applicable to geographic variation in humans. Subsequent chapters deal with the role of co-adapted sets in the process of adaptation; simulation of human reproduction; and the mathematics of population simulation models.This book will be of interest to anthropologists, geneticists, biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and social scientists.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0127851852
• ISBN 13: 9780127851853
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 518