Research Area

Complex Systems, Evolution, and Self-Organization

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1998 "Complex Adaptive Systems, Evolutionism, and Ecology within Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Research for Understanding Cultural and Ecological Dynamics", Georgia Journal of Ecological Anthropology (2):6-29. [online] URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5038/2162-4593.2.1.1

  • This paper was written for Buzz Holling’s resilience and adaptive cycles class. It became an introductory chapter in my dissertation. It is a very good paper, IMO, and probably belonged in a better journal than a student-run journal at Georgia. My inexperience in publishing showing, I suppose.

1998 “Two Simulations of Culture Change”, Paper presented at the 97th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Dec. 2-6, 1998.

2000 Ecosystems, Sociocultural Systems, and Ecological Economics for Understanding Development: The Case of Ecotourism on the Island of Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Florida. [online] URL: https://ufdc.ufl.edu/uf00100747/00001.

2002 “Cultural Evolution Is Not an Evolutionary Dead End: Complex Systems and Multi-Scaled Self-Organization.” Paper presented at the 101st Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, Nov. 19-23, 2002

2003 “Understanding Complex Human Ecosystems: The Case of Ecotourism on Bonaire.” Conservation Ecology 7(3):10. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss3/art10.

2003 “A New Ecosystems Ecology for Anthropology.” (with John R. Stepp) Conservation Ecology 7(3):12. [online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol7/iss3/art12

2008 “Getting Here from There: Tribute to Robert Carneiro”, Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci), New Orleans, LA, Feb 20-23, 2008.

2008 “The New Synthesis Hardens: Is there Another Path to a Science of the Social?”, Paper presented at the 4th Annual Meeting of Society for Anthropological Sciences (SASci), New Orleans, LA, Feb 20-23, 2008.

2025 “Howard T. Odum’s Contributions to Evolutionary Theory”, Ecological Modelling 509:111263. [online] URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2025.111263

TBD “Energy as Explanation: HT Odum vs. Rappaport, Adams, and Smil”