Kenji Itao
kenjiitao.bsky.social
Kenji Itao
@kenjiitao.bsky.social
Postdoc at RIKEN (Japan), exploring human history with evolutionary models.
Focus: universal anthropology, cultural evolution, statistical physics, and complex systems theory.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yKxFW-IAAAAJ&hl=en
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【🚨ACE Seminar Alert🚨】We're excited to have Dr Quentin Atkinson at University of Auckland on Tuesday 18 Nov. at 7pm in Tokyo (6pm in Singapore/11am in Berlin)!

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October 21, 2025 at 4:56 AM
🔔ACE Seminar:
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Siyang Luo from Sun Yat-sen University!

🗓 Mon, Sep 22 at 7:00 PM JST (18:00 (Perth/Singapore/Beijing), 19:00 (Tokyo/Seoul), 20:00 (Sydney))
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September 12, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Our latest paper is on arXiv!
How can robust collective resource governance emerge without costly individual monitoring?
We theoretically demonstrate the self-organization of institutions relying only on monitoring of group-average resource use.
👉 arxiv.org/abs/2507.225...
Anonymous monitoring enables turn-taking and sustainablity in collective resource governance: Multi-player evolutionary dynamical-systems game
Sustainable resource use in large societies requires social institutions that specify acceptable behavior and punish violators. Because mutual monitoring becomes prohibitively costly as populations gr...
arxiv.org
July 31, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Reposted by Kenji Itao
【🚨ACE Seminar Alert🚨】We're excited to have Dr Ryutaro @uchiyama.bsky.social joining from Singapore on Tuesday 29th July at 7pm in Tokyo (6pm in Singapore/12am in Berlin)!

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July 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Reposted by Kenji Itao
The 4th Asian Cultural Evolution Seminar is coming soon on 20 May!

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May 9, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Reposted by Kenji Itao
Excited to share our latest paper published in PNAS!
We introduced a new theoretical framework, "evolutionary dynamical-systems game theory," to explain how rules for sustainable resource use self-organize.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Self-organized institutions in evolutionary dynamical-systems games | PNAS
Social institutions are systems of shared norms and rules that regulate people’s behaviors, often emerging without external enforcement. They provi...
www.pnas.org
April 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Excited to share our latest paper published in PNAS!
We introduced a new theoretical framework, "evolutionary dynamical-systems game theory," to explain how rules for sustainable resource use self-organize.
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Self-organized institutions in evolutionary dynamical-systems games | PNAS
Social institutions are systems of shared norms and rules that regulate people’s behaviors, often emerging without external enforcement. They provi...
www.pnas.org
April 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM