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标题：Cultural Collapse and System Survival Due to Environmental Modification
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作者：Graeme J. Ackland ; Adrien Y. M. Henry ; Alexander Williams 等
期刊名称：Computation
电子版ISSN：2079-3197
出版年度：2014
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：83-101
DOI：10.3390/computation2030083
语种：English
出版社：MDPI Publishing
摘要：We consider a simple mathematical approach to the rise and fall of societies based on population growth and its effects on the environment, both beneficial and detrimental. We find that in any simple model of population dynamics with environmental coupling, stable cultures are impossible. Populations inevitably grow or decline exponentially. Further, if the parameters defining a civilisation are allowed to evolve towards an evolutionarily stable state, the only possible solutions are those where each culture ultimately declines. However, computer simulation with multiple competing cultures show that while each eventually collapses, some are always extant and the system is robust. In this broad class of models, individual death is a requirement for system survival.
关键词：environment; feedback; civilisations; history; anthropology; prehistory