Enrico Cioni

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 · 282 citations · Full text

Humanities, Archaeology, History +10

RETRACTED ARTICLE: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history

Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage et al. · Nature · 2019 · 238 citations

Humanities, History, Sociology +4

Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses

Peter Turchin, Harvey Whitehouse, Sergey Gavrilets et al. · Science Advances · 2022 · 59 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Conflict Studies, History +13

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

Humanities, History, Sociology +12

Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution

Peter Turchin, Daniel Hoyer, Andrey Korotayev et al. · PLoS ONE · 2021 · 42 citations · Full text

Humanities, History, Sociology +17