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Agricultural productivity in past societies : Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses
Currie, Thomas; Bogaard, Amy; Cesaretti, Rudolf; Edwards, Neil R.; Francois, Pieter; Holden, Philip; Hoyer, Daniel; Korotayev, Andrey; Manning, Joseph; Moreno Garcia, Juan Carlos; Oyebamiji, Oluwole K.; Petrie, Cameron; Turchin, Peter; Whitehouse, Harvey; Williams, Alice (2015)Agricultural productivity, and its variation in space and time, plays a fundamental role in many theories of human social evolution. However, we often lack systematic information about the productivity of past agricultural ... -
Building the Seshat Ontology for a Global History Databank
Brennan, Rob; Feeney, Kevin; Mendel-Gleason, Gavin; Bozic, Bojan; Turchin, Peter; Whitehouse, Harvey; Francois, Pieter; Currie, Thomas E.; Grohmann, Stephanie (Springer Nature, 2016) -
The Cultural Evolution of Religion
Bulbulia, Joseph; Geertz, Armin; Atkinson, Quentin; Cohen, Emma; Evans, Nicholas; Francois, Pieter; Gintis, Herbert; Gray, Russell; Henrich, Joseph; Jordan, Fiona; Norenzayan, Ara; Richerson, Peter; Slingerland, Edward; Turchin, Peter; Whitehouse, Harvey; Widlok, Thomas; Wilson, David (MIT Press, 2013) -
Cultural Evolution of the Structure of Human Groups
Jordan, Fiona; Van Schaik, Carel; Francois, Pieter; Gintis, Herbert; Haun, Daniel; Hruschka, Daniel; Janssen, Marco; Kitts, James; Lehmann, Laurent; Mathew, Sarah; Richerson, Peter; Turchin, Peter; Wiessner, Polly (MIT Press, 2013-11) -
DACURA: a new solution to data harvesting and knowledge extraction for the historical sciences
Peregrine, Peter N.; Brennan, Rob; Currie, Thomas; Feeney, Kevin; Francois, Pieter; Turchin, Peter; Whitehouse, Harvey (2018-07-03)New advances in computer science address problems historical scientists face in gathering and evaluating the now vast data sources available through the Internet. As an example we introduce Dacura, a dataset curation ... -
A Historical Database of Sociocultural Evolution
Turchin, Peter; Whitehouse, Harvey; Francois, Pieter; Slingerland, Edward; Collard, Marc (2012)The origin of human ultrasociality—the ability to cooperate in huge groups of genetically unrelated individuals—has long interested evolutionary and social theorists, but there has been little systematic empirical research ... -
A Macroscope for Global History. Seshat Global History Databank: a methodological overview
Francois, Pieter; Manning, J.G.; Whitehouse, Harvey; Brennan, Rob; Currie, Thomas; Feeney, Kevin; Turchin, Peter (2016-12-22)This article introduces the ‘Seshat: Global History’ project, the methodology it is based upon and its potential as a tool for historians and other humanists. The article describes in detail how the Seshat methodology and ... -
Response to commentaries 'The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five predictions and a drum roll'
Whitehouse, Harvey; Francois, Pieter; Turchin, Peter (2015-12-11) -
The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity : Five Predictions and a drum roll
Whitehouse, Harvey; Francois, Pieter; Turchin, Peter (2015-10-12) -
The Role of Ritual in the Evolution of Social Complexity: Five Predictions and a Drum Roll
Whitehouse, Harvey; Francois, Pieter; Turchin, Peter (2015) -
Seshat: The Global History Databank
Turchin, Peter; Brennan, Rob; Currie, Thomas E.; Feeney, Kevin C.; Francois, Pieter; Hoyer, Daniel; Manning, Joseph G.; Marciniak, Arkadiusz; Mullins, Daniel Austin; Palmisano, Alessio; Peregrine, Peter; Turner, Edward A. L.; Whitehouse, Harvey (2015)The vast amount of knowledge about past human societies has not been systematically organized and, therefore, remains inaccessible for empirically testing theories about cultural evolution and historical dynamics. For ... -
What is Seshat: the Global History Databank?
Turchin, Peter; Currie, Thomas; Francois, Pieter; Manning, Joseph; Mullins, Daniel Austin; Sears, Brittany; Honick, Alan (2015-09)The Seshat: Global History Databank brings together the most current and comprehensive body of knowledge about human history in one place. This unique Databank systematically collects what is currently known about the ...