Explaining 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.

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Big 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.

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Disentangling 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.

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Rise 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

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Outgroup threat and the emergence of cohesive groups: A cross-cultural examination

Martin Lang, Dimitris Xygalatas, Christopher M. Kavanagh, Natalia Boccardi, Jamin Halberstadt, Chris Jackson, Mercedes Martínez, Paul Reddish, Eddie M. W. Tong, Alexandra Vázquez, Harvey Whitehouse, Maria Emilia Yamamoto, Masaki Yuki and Angel Gomez (2021). Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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