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Pieter François

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25

Publications

1.3K

Citations

17

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2008

Active since

Affiliations

University of Oxford(Current)

University of Exeter

University of Connecticut

The Evolution Institute

Complexity Science Hub Vienna

Pieter François is an author at University of Oxford specializing in social sciences, language studies, and anthropology.

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LanguageSocial SciencesAnthropologyHistorical GeographyEducationCultureArchaeologyGeopoliticsGlobalizationCultural History

Publications per year

2008–2024

25

Publications

25

Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization

Peter Turchin, Thomas E. Currie, Harvey Whitehouse et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017 · 278 citations · Full text

Social Theory, Social Change, Social Structures +17

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history

Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage et al. · Nature · 2019 · 237 citations

Comparative Religion, Moral Philosophy, Retracted Article +1

Seshat: The Global History Databank

Peter Turchin, Rob Brennan, Thomas E. Currie et al. · Cliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution · 2015 · 151 citations · Full text

Explaining the Rise of Moralizing Religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank

Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Jennifer Larson et al. · 2019 · 56 citations · Full text

Religious History, Religion Studies, Moralizing Religion +12

Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses

Thomas E. Currie, Amy Bogaard, Rudolf Cesaretti et al. · Cliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution · 2015 · 54 citations · Full text

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