{"id":1011,"date":"2012-02-08T17:28:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=1011"},"modified":"2012-02-08T17:33:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-08T21:33:58","slug":"sfi-president-brings-anthrolopolgists-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/08\/sfi-president-brings-anthrolopolgists-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"SFI President Brings Anthropologist&#8217;s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nimbios.org\/videos\/sabloff\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1013\" title=\"sabloff\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sabloff.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sabloff.png 640w, https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/sabloff-300x169.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Mathematical modelers, anthropologists, archaeologists, and other social scientists are gathered at NIMBioS this week for the <a href=\"http:\/\/nimbios.org\/workshops\/WS_social_complexity\" target=\"_blank\">Investigative Workshop on Modeling Social Complexity<\/a>. The aim of the workshop, co-hosted by NIMBioS and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nescent.org\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">National Evolutionary Synthesis Center<\/a>, is to work toward developing a formal theory for the evolution of human social complexity. This new science, known as <a href=\"http:\/\/cliodynamics.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cliodynamics<\/a>, uses a dynamical systems approach to studying history by combining mathematical models and analyses of quantitative data to explain the processes and mechanisms that influence history. This week&#8217;s gathering of international scholars looking mathematical modeling of social complexity is the first of its kind. One participant is <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Sabloff\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Jeremy Sabloff<\/a>, the president of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafe.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Fe Institute<\/a>. We sat down with Dr. Sabloff, an anthropologist, to find out the value of mathematical approaches to scientific inquiry. <a href=\"http:\/\/nimbios.org\/videos\/sabloff\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to view the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mathematical modelers, anthropologists, archaeologists, and other social scientists are gathered at NIMBioS this week for the Investigative Workshop on Modeling Social Complexity. The aim of the workshop, co-hosted by NIMBioS and the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, is to work toward &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/08\/sfi-president-brings-anthrolopolgists-perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,7],"tags":[112,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1011"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1011\/revisions\/1016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}