Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.

chapter 1 Introduction -- part Part I The simulation of social theories -- chapter 2 A model of the emergence of new political actors / Robert Axelrod -- chapter 3 Division of labour and social co-ordination modes: a simple simulation model -- chapter 4 Emergence of kinship structures: a multi-agent approach / Jean Pierre Treuil -- chapter 5 Cities can be agents too: a model for the evolution of settlement systems -- chapter 6 The EOS project: integrating two models of Palaeolithic social change / Jim Doran -- chapter 7 Genetic algorithms, teleological conservatism, and the emergence of optimal demand relations: the case of learning-by-consuming -- part Part II The evolution and emergence of societies -- chapter 8 Emergence in social simulation / Nigel Gilbert -- chapter 9 How to invent a lexicon: the development of shared symbols in interaction / Edwin Hutchins -- chapter 10 MANTA: new experimental results on the emergence of (artificial) ant societies -- chapter 11 Emergent behaviour in societies of heterogeneous, interacting agents: alliances and norms -- part Part III The foundations of social simulation -- chapter 12 Kin-directed altruism and attachment behaviour in an evolving population of neural networks -- chapter 13 Understanding the functions of norms in social groups through simulation / Rosaria Conte -- chapter 14 A logical approach to simulating societies / Michael Fisher.