Hoyer, D., Whitehouse, H., Francois, P., Reddish, J., Davis, D., Feeney, K. C., Levine, J., Holder, S. l., & Turchin, P. (2024) Cliodynamics.
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity→
/Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., François, P., Larson, J., & A. Covey. (2023). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13:2, 121–123
Read MoreExplaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank→
/Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Larson, J., Cioni, E., Reddish, J., Hoyer, D., Savage, P.E., Covey, R.A., Baines, J., Altaweel, M., Anderson, E., Bol, P., Brandl, E., Carballo, D.M., Feinman, G., Korotayev, A., Kradin, N., Levine, J.D., Nugent, S.E., Squitieri, A., Wallace, V., & François, P. (2023). Religion, Brain & Behavior. 13:2, 167–194.
Read MoreBig Gods and Big Science: Further reflections on theory, data, and analysis→
/Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Larson, J., Cioni, E., Reddish, J., Hoyer, D., Savage, P.E., Covey, R.A., Baines, J., Altaweel, M., Anderson, E., Bol, P., Brandl, E., Carballo, D.M., Feinman, G., Korotayev, A., Kradin, N., Levine, J.D., Nugent, S.E., Squitieri, A., Wallace, V., & François, P. (2023). Religion, Brain & Behavior. 13:2, 218–231.
Read MoreTesting the Big Gods hypothesis: A review and 'retake'→
/Whitehouse, H., François, P., Savage P.E., Hoyer, D., Feeney, K.C., Cioni, E., Purcell, R., Larson, J., Baines, J., ter Haar, B., Covey, A., & Turchin, P. (2023). Religion, Brain & Behavior, 13:2, 124–166.
Read MoreDisentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses→
/Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Gavrilets, S., Hoyer, D., François, P., Bennett, J.S., Feeney, K.C., Peregrine, P., Feinman, G., Korotayev, A., Kradin, N., Levine, J., Reddish, J., Cioni, E., Wacziarg, R., Mendel-Gleason, G., & Benam, M. (2022) Science Advances.
Read MoreRise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution→
/Turchin, Peter, Daniel Hoyer, Andrey Korotayev, Nikolay Kradin, Sergey Nefedov, Gary Feinman, Jill Levine, Jenny Reddish, Enrico Cioni, Chelsea Thorpe, James S. Bennett, Pieter François, and Harvey Whitehouse (2021). PLOS ONE
Read MoreAn integrative approach to estimating productivity in past societies using Seshat: Global history databank→
/Peter Turchin, Thomas Currie, Christina Collins, Jill Levine, Oluwole Oyebamiji, Neil R Edwards, Philip B Holden, Daniel Hoyer, Kevin Feeney, Pieter François and Harvey Whitehouse (2021). The Holocene.
Read MoreThe Equinox2020 Seshat data release→
/Turchin, P.; Hoyer, D.; Bennett, J.; Basava, K.; Cioni, E.; Feeney, K., et al. (2020). Cliodynamics, 11(1).
Read MoreAn introduction to Seshat: Global history databank→
/Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter Francois, Daniel Hoyer, … & Liye Xie (2020). Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 5, 1–2 (2018–19).
Read MoreReply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research→
/Thomas E. Currie, Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, et al. (2018). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 115(26), E5841–E5842
Read MoreA systematic assessment of 'Axial Age' proposals using global comparative historical evidence→
/Daniel Austin Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter Francois, Patrick E. Savage, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter Turchin (2018) American Sociological Review
Read MoreDacura: A new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences→
/Peter N. Peregrine, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, Pieter Francois, Peter Turchin & Harvey Whitehouse (2018) Historical Methods
Read MoreQuantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization.→
/Peter Turchin, Thomas E. Currie, Whitehouse, Harvey, et al. (2018) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS)
Read MoreGrand challenges for the study of cultural evolution→
/Joe Brewer, Michele Gelfand, Joshua Conrad Jackson, Ian F. MacDonald, Peter Neal Peregrine, Peter J. Richerson, Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse and David Sloan Wilson (2017). Nature Ecology & Evolution, 1.
Read MoreRitual and social evolution: Understanding social complexity through data →
/Harvey Whitehouse (2016). In B. Bozic et al (eds.), Computational History and Data-Driven Humanities (Springer International Publishing), pp. 3–14.
Read MoreA macroscope for global history: Seshat global history databank, a methodological overview→
/Pieter Francois, J. G. Manning, Harvey Whitehouse, Rob Brennan, Thomas Currie, Kevin Feeney, and Peter Turchin (2016). Digital Humanities Quarterly 10 (4).
Read MoreAgricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses→
/Thomas E. Currie, Amy Bogaard, Rudolf Cesaretti, Neil R. Edwards, Pieter François, Phillip B. Holden, Daniel Hoyer, Andrey Korotayev, Joe Manning, Juan Carlos Moreno Garcia, Oluwole K. Oyebamiji, Cameron Petrie, Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, and Alice Williams (2015). Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution 6(1), pp. 24-56.
Read MoreSeshat: The Global History Databank (PDF)→
/Peter Turchin, Rob Brennan, Thomas E. Currie, Kevin C. Feeney, Pieter François, Daniel Hoyer, J. G. Manning, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Daniel Mullins, Alessio Palmisano, Peter Peregrine, Edward A. L. Turner, and Harvey Whitehouse (2015). Cliodynamics: The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution 6(1), pp. 77-107.
Read MoreA Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution (PDF)→
/Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter Francois, Edward Slingerlandd Mark Collard (2012). Cliodynamics: The Journal of Theoretical and Mathematical History, Vol. 3, No. 2: pp 271 - 293.
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