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Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age
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Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history
Harvey Whitehouse,Pieter Francois,Patrick E. Savage,Patrick E. Savage,Thomas E. Currie,Kevin Feeney,Enrico Cioni,Rosalind Purcell,Robert M. Ross,Robert M. Ross,Robert M. Ross,Jennifer Larson,John Baines,Barend ter Haar,Alan Covey,Peter Turchin +15 more
TL;DR: Analysis of records from 414 societies that span the past 10,000 years from 30 regions around the world reveals that moralizing gods follow—rather than precede—large increases in social complexity.
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Increased affluence explains the emergence of ascetic wisdoms and moralizing religions.
TL;DR: The idea, inspired by life history theory, that absolute affluence would have impacted human motivation and reward systems, nudging people away from short-term strategies (resource acquisition and coercive interactions) and promoting long- term strategies (self-control techniques and cooperative interactions) is put forward.
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Seshat: The Global History Databank
Peter Turchin,Rob Brennan,Thomas E. Currie,Kevin Feeney,Pieter Francois,Daniel Hoyer,Joseph G. Manning,Arkadiusz Marciniak,Daniel Austin Mullins,Alessio Palmisano,Peter N. Peregrine,Edward Turner,Harvey Whitehouse +12 more
TL;DR: Seshat: The Global History Databank as mentioned in this paper is a large-scale dataset of historical and archaeological information about past human societies that has not been systematically organized and, therefore, remains inaccessible for empirically testing theories about cultural evolution and historical dynamics.
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How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science:
TL;DR: A long tradition of scholarship, from ancient Greece to Marxism or some contemporary social psychology, portrays humans as strongly gullible and will not accept harmful messages by being unduly deferent as discussed by the authors.
Teaching & researching big history: exploring a new scholarly field
TL;DR: To extend Darwin's ideas beyond the biological realm, the authors must disentangle the biological version of the Darwinian mechanism from several other forms to make it easier to make the adjustments needed to explore Darwinian mechanisms in human history.
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Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history
Harvey Whitehouse,Pieter Francois,Patrick E. Savage,Patrick E. Savage,Thomas E. Currie,Kevin Feeney,Enrico Cioni,Rosalind Purcell,Robert M. Ross,Robert M. Ross,Robert M. Ross,Jennifer Larson,John Baines,Barend ter Haar,Alan Covey,Peter Turchin +15 more
TL;DR: Analysis of records from 414 societies that span the past 10,000 years from 30 regions around the world reveals that moralizing gods follow—rather than precede—large increases in social complexity.
Journal ArticleDOI
Seshat: The Global History Databank
Peter Turchin,Rob Brennan,Thomas E. Currie,Kevin Feeney,Pieter Francois,Daniel Hoyer,Joseph G. Manning,Arkadiusz Marciniak,Daniel Austin Mullins,Alessio Palmisano,Peter N. Peregrine,Edward Turner,Harvey Whitehouse +12 more
TL;DR: Seshat: The Global History Databank as mentioned in this paper is a large-scale dataset of historical and archaeological information about past human societies that has not been systematically organized and, therefore, remains inaccessible for empirically testing theories about cultural evolution and historical dynamics.
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How Gullible are We? A Review of the Evidence from Psychology and Social Science:
TL;DR: A long tradition of scholarship, from ancient Greece to Marxism or some contemporary social psychology, portrays humans as strongly gullible and will not accept harmful messages by being unduly deferent as discussed by the authors.
Teaching & researching big history: exploring a new scholarly field
TL;DR: To extend Darwin's ideas beyond the biological realm, the authors must disentangle the biological version of the Darwinian mechanism from several other forms to make it easier to make the adjustments needed to explore Darwinian mechanisms in human history.
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Self-interested agents create, maintain, and modify group-functional culture
TL;DR: Hypothesizing that self-interested individuals coercively and collaboratively create rules, it is proposed that agent-based hypotheses offer viable alternatives to cultural group selection (CGS).