Fig. 5
Cultural group and haplogroup dynamics in competing completely non-patrilineal groups (NPT) and in competing patrilineal kin groups (PT). These correspond to Figs. 2 and 3 of Supplementary Note 3. There are 100 cultural groups, or ‘tribes,’ each with size 100 at the beginning, and 500 possible haplogroups. Dynamics of the number of distinct cultural groups, cultural group diversity, the number of distinct haplogroups and haplogroup diversity are obtained by averaging over 100 simulation runs (details in Supplementary Note 3). Left panels: a Number of distinct haplogroups. b Haplogroup diversity. c Number of distinct cultural groups. d Cultural group diversity. Each graph consists of 100 pink trajectories representing 100 distinct simulation runs, and one thick solid red trajectory representing the average of the 100 pink trajectories. Black dotted lines representing confidence intervals covering two standard deviations from this mean trajectory. Note that the total number of haplogroups does not increase in this model as each haplogroup-cultural group pair has too few representatives for the mutation step of our algorithm to operate on; this is a methodological artifact and not a significant result. e The mean dynamics of the size of each of the 500 haplogroups over T = 60 generations. f The dynamics of each of the 500 haplogroups for one single run. Right panel: g–j Dynamics for the patrilineal configuration, correspond to a–d of the non-patrilineal configuration. Similarly, k, l correspond to e, f
