The cultural evolution and ecology of institutions: An integrated evolutionary approach to the interrelated rules that regulate human social organization and cooperation

Publications

Book chapters (1)

How the Dual Inheritance of Genes and Culture Shapes Behaviour: A Critical Review with a Focus on Human Culture and Behavioural Diversity

Author(s): Thomas E. Currie
Published in: Genes and Behaviour - Beyond Nature-Nurture, 2019, Page(s) 27-59, ISBN 9781-119313663
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
DOI: 10.1002/9781119313663.ch3

Peer reviewed articles (3)

Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history

Author(s): Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Patrick E. Savage, Thomas E. Currie, Kevin C. Feeney, Enrico Cioni, Rosalind Purcell, Robert M. Ross, Jennifer Larson, John Baines, Barend ter Haar, Alan Covey, Peter Turchin
Published in: Nature, 568/7751, 2019, Page(s) 226-229, ISSN 0028-0836
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-019-1043-4

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

Author(s): Peter Turchin, Thomas E. Currie, Harvey Whitehouse, Pieter François, Kevin Feeney, Daniel Mullins, Daniel Hoyer, Christina Collins, Stephanie Grohmann, Patrick 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, P
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115/2, 2018, Page(s) E144-E151, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708800115

Duration of agriculture and distance from the steppe predict the evolution of large-scale human societies in Afro-Eurasia

Author(s): Thomas E. Currie, Peter Turchin, Edward Turner, Sergey Gavrilets
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7/1, 2020, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: SpringerNature
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-0516-2

Other (2)

History of agriculture and intensity of warfare shaped the evolution of large-scale human societies in Afro-Eurasia

Author(s): Thomas Currie Peter Turchin Sergey Gavrilets
Published in: socArXiv Papers, 2019
Publisher: Open Science Framework
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/9kmrw

Long-run historical and ecological determinants of economic development mediated by the cultural evolution of effective institutions

Author(s): Adam Flitton Thomas Currie
Published in: SocArXiv Papers, 2018
Publisher: Open Science Framework
DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/cy4fd

Conference proceedings (1)

A PHYLOGENETIC STUDY OF SINO-TIBETAN KINSHIP EVOLUTION

Author(s): TING JI, MAY HANZHI ZHANG, THOMAS E CURRIE, ANDREW MEADE, MARK PAGEL, RUTH MACE
Published in: The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 13th International Conference (Evolang13), 2020, Page(s) 177-180
Publisher: Zurich Open Repository and Archive