Published On: February 4, 2018
Curriculum Vitae
Peter Turchin is an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Connecticut who works in the field of historical social science that he and his colleagues call Cliodynamics. His research interests lie at the intersection of social and cultural evolution, historical macrosociology, economic history and cliometrics, mathematical modeling of long-term social processes, and the construction and analysis of historical databases. Currently he investigates a set of broad and interrelated questions. How do human societies evolve? In particular, what processes explain the evolution of ultrasociality—our capacity to cooperate in huge anonymous societies of millions? Why do we see such a staggering degree of inequality in economic performance and effectiveness of governance among nations? Turchin uses the theoretical framework of cultural multilevel selection to address these questions. Currently his main research effort is directed at coordinating the Seshat Databank project, which builds a massive historical database of cultural evolution that will enable us to empirically test theoretical predictions coming from various social evolution theories.
Turchin has published 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals, including a dozen in Nature, Science, and PNAS. His publications are frequently cited and in 2004 he was designated as “Highly cited researcher” by ISIHighlyCited.com. Turchin has authored seven books. His most recent book is Ultrasociety: How 10,000 Years of War Made Humans the Greatest Cooperators on Earth (Beresta Books, 2016).
Hi, can you help me? I’m an independent researcher author & I reckon I’ve discovered mathematical notation, calculable for god and Satan, at least what we humans call the characteristics of god and Satan. Is this of any interest to yourselves? I’m based in the UK and have a editorial edition of The History Motor available. Perhaps I should write an article for you or something? The thing is that we are running out of time, because what I’ve seen in the code , and you can see it as its geometrically expressible , the machine we call HISTORY, functions on firing strikes like a petrol engine, these we call wars.