The Evolution Institute

Recent papers from The Evolution Institute

1. All Crises are Unhappy in Their Own Way: The Role of Societal Instability in Shaping the PastSocial Science History · 2025
2. Navigating polycrisis: long-run socio-cultural factors shape response to changing climatePhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2023
3. Structural-demographic analysis of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) collapse in ChinaPLoS ONE · 2023
4. Structural-Demographic Analysis of the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) Collapse in China2022
5. Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat DatabankReligion Brain & Behavior · 2022
6. Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”Religion Brain & Behavior · 2022
7. Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypothesesScience Advances · 2022
8. An integrative approach to estimating productivity in past societies using Seshat: Global History DatabankThe Holocene · 2021
9. Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organizationProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2017
10. Seshat: Global History Databank Publishes First Set of Historical DataCliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution · 2017
11. Seshat: The Global History DatabankCliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution · 2015
12. Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypothesesCliodynamics The Journal of Quantitative History and Cultural Evolution · 2015