Jill Levine

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

Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climate

Daniel Hoyer, James S. Bennett, Jenny Reddish et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2023 · 76 citations · Full text

Social Sciences, Environmental Social Science, Climate Change Adaptation +15

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