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Alice Williams
Researcher at University of Exeter
Publications - 4
Citations - 171
Alice Williams is an academic researcher from University of Exeter. The author has contributed to research in topics: Nuclear DNA & Agricultural productivity. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 4 publications receiving 128 citations.
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Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization.
Peter Turchin,Thomas E. Currie,Harvey Whitehouse,Pieter Francois,Kevin Feeney,Daniel Austin Mullins,Daniel Austin Mullins,Daniel Hoyer,Christina Collins,Stephanie Grohmann,Patrick E. Savage,Gavin Mendel-Gleason,Edward Turner,Agathe Dupeyron,Enrico Cioni,Jenny Reddish,Jill Levine,Greine Jordan,Eva Brandl,Alice Williams,Rudolf Cesaretti,Marta Krueger,Alessandro Ceccarelli,Joe Figliulo-Rosswurm,Po-Ju Tuan,Peter N. Peregrine,Peter N. Peregrine,Arkadiusz Marciniak,Johannes Preiser-Kapeller,Nikolay N. Kradin,Andrey Korotayev,Alessio Palmisano,David Baker,Julye Bidmead,Peter K. Bol,David Christian,Connie Cook,Connie Cook,Alan Covey,Gary M. Feinman,Árni Daníel Júlíusson,Axel Kristinsson,John N. Miksic,Ruth Mostern,Cameron A. Petrie,Peter Rudiak-Gould,Barend J. ter Haar,Vesna Wallace,Victor H. Mair,Liye Xie,John Baines,Elizabeth Page Bridges,Joseph G. Manning,Bruce M. Lockhart,Amy Bogaard,Charles S. Spencer +55 more
TL;DR: A database of historical and archaeological information from 30 regions around the world over the last 10,000 years revealed that characteristics, such as social scale, economy, features of governance, and information systems, show strong evolutionary relationships with each other and that complexity of a society across different world regions can be meaningfully measured using a single principal component of variation.
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Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses
Thomas E. Currie,Amy Bogaard,Rudolf Cesaretti,Neil R. Edwards,Pieter Francois,Philip B. Holden,Daniel Hoyer,Andrey Korotayev,Joseph G. Manning,Juan Carlos Moreno García,Oluwole Oyebamiji,Cameron A. Petrie,Peter Turchin,Harvey Whitehouse,Alice Williams +14 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue for a bottom-up approach that estimates productivity, or potential productivity based on information about the agricultural practices and technologies used in past societies, and use this information to estimate the carrying capacity of a given region, independently of estimates of population size.
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Hybridization of Leucyl-Transfer Ribonucleic Acid Isoacceptors from Green Leaves with Nuclear and Chloroplast Deoxyribonucleic Acid
TL;DR: Under the same hybridization conditions, maize tRNA failed to form a stable hybrid with bean DNA, and levels of hybridization between bean-leaf leucyl-tRNA and nuclear or chloroplast DNAs from tobacco and maize were relatively small.
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Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative Analyses of Cultural Evolution Require Engagement with Historical and Archaeological Research
Thomas E. Currie,Peter Turchin,Harvey Whitehouse,Pieter Francois,Kevin Feeney,Daniel Austin Mullins,Daniel Austin Mullins,Daniel Hoyer,Christina Collins,Stephanie Grohmann,Patrick E. Savage,Gavin Mendel-Gleason,Edward Turner,Agathe Dupeyron,Enrico Cioni,Jenny Reddish,Jill Levine,Greine Jordan,Eva Brandl,Alice Williams,Rudolf Cesaretti,Marta Krueger,Alessandro Ceccarelli,Joe Figliulo-Rosswurm,Po Ju Tuan,Peter N. Peregrine,Peter N. Peregrine,Arkadiusz Marciniak,Johannes Preiser-Kapeller,Nikolay N. Kradin,Andrey Korotayev,Alessio Palmisano,David Baker,Julye Bidmead,Peter K. Bol,David Christian,Connie Cook,Alan Covey,Gary M. Feinman,Árni Daníel Júlíusson,Axel Kristinsson,John N. Miksic,Ruth Mostern,Cameron A. Petrie,Peter Rudiak-Gould,Barend J. ter Haar,Vesna Wallace,Victor H. Mair,Liye Xie,John Baines,Elizabeth Page Bridges,Joseph G. Manning,Bruce M. Lockhart,Amy Bogaard,Charles S. Spencer +54 more
TL;DR: The suggestion that polity population divided by polity area should be one of the social complexity dimensions raises a number of issues, including what does this ratio mean at large spatial scales?