Graphical representations of simulated social networks

Researchers used computer simulations based on principles of statistical physics and evolutionary biology to model how human societies would form under different conditions. Direct-exchange (left), generalized-exchange (center), and restricted-exchange (right) social structure models observed by cultural anthropologists in the 1960s are represented graphically. Credit:

Kenji Itao, University of Tokyo, CC BY-SA 4.0

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