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Abdollahian, M., Yang, Z., Coan, T., & Yesilada, B. (2013). Human development dynamics: an agent based simulation of macro social systems and individual heterogeneous evolutionary games. Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling, 1(1), 18. doi.org/10.1186/2194-3206-1-18

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