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20202026
most citedEmergence of economic and social disparities through competitive gift-giving

2 citations · 4 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.MA2026

Emergence of Reputation-Based Cooperation in LLM Agents

Kazuya Horibe, Kenji Itao, Wataru Toyokawa

Can cooperation among large language model (LLM) agents be evolutionarily stable against free-rider invasion? We study an indirect reciprocity donation game where LLM agents observ…

physics.soc-ph2025

Collective evolutionary dynamical-systems games: Emergent turn-taking under anonymous monitoring

Kenji Itao, Kunihiko Kaneko

Sustainable resource use in large societies requires institutions that define and enforce acceptable behaviour while keeping monitoring costs manageable. Here we show that such ins…

physics.soc-ph2025

Self-organized institutions in evolutionary dynamical-systems game

Kenji Itao, Kunihiko Kaneko

Social institutions are systems of shared norms and rules that regulate people's behaviors, often emerging without external enforcement. They provide criteria to distinguish cooper…

physics.soc-ph2024

Formation of human kinship structures depending on population size and cultural mutation rate

Kenji Itao, Kunihiko Kaneko

How does social complexity depend on population size and cultural transmission? Kinship structures in traditional societies provide a fundamental illustration, where cultural rules…

physics.soc-ph2024

Two universal pathways in demographic transition

Kenji Itao

Demographic transition, characterized by declines in fertility and mortality, is a global phenomenon associated with modernization. While typical patterns of fertility decline are…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 2 cited

Emergence of economic and social disparities through competitive gift-giving

Kenji Itao, Kunihiko Kaneko

Several tiers of social organization with varying economic and social disparities have been observed. However, a quantitative characterization of the types and the causal mechanism…

physics.soc-ph2022

Transition of Social Organisations Driven by Gift Relationship

Kenji Itao, Kunihiko Kaneko

Anthropologists have observed gift relationships that establish social relations as well as the transference of goods in many human societies. The totality of such social relations…

physics.soc-ph2021★ 1 cited

Emergence of Kinship Structures and Descent Systems: Multi-level Evolutionary Simulation and Empirical Data Analysis

Kenji Itao, Kunihiko kaneko

In many indigenous societies, people are categorised into several cultural groups, or clans, within which they believe to share ancestors. Clan attributions provide certain rules f…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 1 cited

Evolution of family systems and resultant socio-economic structures

Kenji Itao, Kunihiko Kaneko

Families form the basis of society, and anthropologists have characterised various family systems. This study developed a multi-level evolutionary model of pre-industrial agricultu…