Growing Artificial Societies: Social Science from the Bottom Up

https://www.brookings.edu/books/growing-artificial-societies/

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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.

Cited in the report text.