Books by Peter Turchin

Books on cliodynamics, social evolution, cooperation, historical dynamics, and political instability.

The Great Holocene Transformation

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The Great Holocene Transformation

What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution of Complex Societies

Why do the 99.9% of humanity live in large-scale societies organized as states? During the Holocene (the last 10,000 years), human societies have been transformed utterly: from small groups of nomadic foragers to our current interconnected world of large-scale societies organized as states. Population numbers, agricultural productivity, technological…

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