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Coevolutionary network approach to cultural dynamics controlled by intolerance

2011; American Physical Society; Volume: 84; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1103/physreve.84.067101

1550-2376

Carlos Gracia-Lázaro, Fernando Quijandría, Laura Hernández, L. M. Florı́a, Yamir Moreno,

Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation

Starting from Axelrod's model of cultural dissemination, we introduce a rewiring probability, enabling agents to cut the links with their unfriendly neighbors if their cultural similarity is below a tolerance parameter. For low values of tolerance, rewiring promotes the convergence to a frozen monocultural state. However, intermediate tolerance values prevent rewiring once the network is fragmented, resulting in a multicultural society even for values of initial cultural diversity in which the original Axelrod model reaches globalization.