A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship
with material things, demonstrating how humans and societies are entrapped into the …

The design and implementation of effective environmental policies need to be informed by a
holistic understanding of the system processes (biophysical, social and economic), their …

Coupled human and natural systems (CHANS) manifest various complexities such as
heterogeneity, nonlinearity, feedback, and emergence. Humans play a critical role in …

Departing from the comprehensive reviews carried out in the field, we identify the key
challenges that agent-based methodology faces when modeling coupled socio-ecological …

Evolutionary biology provides a crucial foundation for medicine and behavioral science that
has been missing from psychiatry. Its absence helps to explain slow progress; its advent …

Brian Skyrms' study of ideas of cooperation and collective action explores the implications of
a prototypical story found in Rousseau's A Discourse on Inequality. It is therein that …

This article presents an overview of multi-agent system models of land-use/cover change
(MAS/LUCC models). This special class of LUCC models combines a cellular landscape …

Computational methods have become the dominant technique in many areas of science.
This book contains the first systematic philosophical account of these new methods and their …

In exploring human‐thing entanglement I wish to make five points.(1) Humans depend on
things. In much of the new work in the social and human sciences in which humans and …

ABSTRACT A number of recent hypotheses have attempted to explain the ultimate
evolutionary origins of laughter and humor. However, most of these have lacked breadth in …