1. Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko. “Self-organized institutions in evolutionary dynamical-systems game.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122.15 (2025): 1-15.
2. Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko. “Emergence of economic and social disparities through competitive gift-giving.” PLOS Complex Systems 1.1 (2024) 1-16.
3. Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko. “Formation of human kinship structures depending on population size and cultural mutation rate.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 121.33 (2024): 1-9.
4. Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko. “Transition of social organizations driven by gift relationship.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 10.1 (2023): 1-10.
5. Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko. “Emergence of kinship structures and descent systems: multi-level evolutionary simulation and empirical data analysis.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B 289.1969 (2022):1-10 .
6. Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko. “Evolution of family systems and resultant socio-economic structures.” Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 8.1 (2021):1-11
7. Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko. “Reply to Read and Parkin: Our model correctly expresses the ethnographic nature of the cultural incest taboo and kinship structures.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.17 (2020): 9167-9168
8. Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko. “Evolution of kinship structures driven by marriage tie and competition.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117.5 (2020): 2378-2384
9. Kenji Itao Fumiya Omata, Yoshitaka Nishikawa, Tetsuro Oda, Toshiharu Sasaki, Cherri Zhang, John Solomon Maninang, and Takayuki Yamaguchi. “Threshold phenomena with respect to the initiation of depopulation in a simple model of foot-and-mouth disease.” Mathematical Biosciences and Engineering, 16.5 (2019): 5931-5946