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Po-Ju Tuan
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Po-Ju Tuan is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sociocultural evolution & Social complexity. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 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,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.