6 papers
Generalising the Central Dogma as a cross-hierarchical principle of biology
Nobuto Takeuchi, Kunihiko Kaneko
The Central Dogma of molecular biology, as originally proposed by Crick, asserts that information passed into protein cannot flow back out. This principle has been interpreted as u…
Anonymous monitoring enables turn-taking and sustainablity in collective resource governance: Multi-player evolutionary dynamical-systems game
Kenji Itao, Kunihiko Kaneko
Sustainable resource use in large societies requires social institutions that specify acceptable behavior and punish violators. Because mutual monitoring becomes prohibitively cost…
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…
Modelling Soil as a Living System: Feedback between Microbial Activity and Spatial Structure
Riz Fernando Noronha, Kim Sneppen, Kunihiko Kaneko
Soil is a complex, dynamic material, with physical properties that depend on its biological content. We propose a cellular automaton model for self-organizing soil structure, where…
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…
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…