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Peter Turchin - The Holoscene Transformation

The Great Holocene Transformation What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution of Complex Societies?

Jul 6, 2025Darwin Club WebinarsSocial Complexity

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The Great Holocene Transformation

Sep 17, 2025Turchin, P.

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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