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Joe Figliulo-Rosswurm

Researcher at University of California, Santa Barbara

Publications -  2
Citations -  131

Joe Figliulo-Rosswurm is an academic researcher from University of California, Santa Barbara. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociocultural evolution & Population. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 2 publications receiving 89 citations.

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Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization.

Peter Turchin, +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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Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative Analyses of Cultural Evolution Require Engagement with Historical and Archaeological Research

Thomas E. Currie, +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?