Peter Turchin has appointments in ecology & evolution and mathematics at the University of Connecticut. He is the author of five books, three of which, Historical Dynamics, Secular Cycles and […]
A post commenting on Peter Turchin’s philosophy in regard to the utility of formal models, The utility of theoretical models. As I’ve been wont to say recently, error in the […]
Just a heads up, I’ve got a CyberMonday discount at my Substack and a bunch of book recommendations on a free post. Update: Substack wouldn’t let me post the full […]
The above plot from a Peter Turchin blog post, Easter, Early Christians, and Cliodynamics, illustrates a sigmoid curve in the rise of Christianity among Roman elites (elites are relevant since […]
Over at Substack someone asked if L. L. Cavalli-Sforza’s works from the 1990’s are worth reading. I had to say, sadly, that probably not. It’s 2020, and they’re just too […]
One of Peter Turchin’s ideas which have had a major impact on me is that of a “meta-ethnic” identity, and how that fits perfectly with what we might term “world […]
Recently there was a discussion on Twitter in regards to group selection, and I made a few comments which I think should be familiar to readers of this weblog, but […]
