# Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up

*Source* · `src-epstein-1996-growing-artificial-societies` · status: **n/a**

| field | value |
|---|---|
| kind | Book |
| authors | Joshua M. Epstein, Robert L. Axtell |
| venue | Brookings Institution Press and MIT Press |
| date | 1996-10-01 |
| url | https://www.brookings.edu/books/growing-artificial-societies/ |
| isbn | 978-0-262-55025-3 |
| accessed | 2026-10-31 |
| archived | https://web.archive.org/web/20260710230041/https://www.brookings.edu/books/growing-artificial-societies/ |

## Notes

Publisher page with a long description; the book was not read. Group formation, cultural transmission, combat and trade "emerge" from "the interaction of individual agents following simple local rules" in Sugarscape, where agents with vision, metabolism and speed move over a landscape of sugar. The description then introduces seasons, sexual reproduction, tribes and combat, a second resource with trade (a market emerges), and pollution.

## Citation

Joshua M. Epstein, Robert L. Axtell (1996-10-01). *Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up*. Brookings Institution Press and MIT Press https://www.brookings.edu/books/growing-artificial-societies/

Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20260710230041/https://www.brookings.edu/books/growing-artificial-societies/

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