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

Project Information

EVORULES

Grant agreement ID: 716212

DOI 10.3030/716212

Project closed

EC signature date 15 March 2017

Start date 1 September 2017

End date 31 August 2023

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 462,00

EU contribution € 1 499 462,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

A New Era in the Study of Global History Is Born but It Needs to Be Nurtured

Author(s): Harvey Whitehouse; Peter Turchin; 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; R. Alan Covey
Published in: Journal of Cognitive Historiography, 2020, ISSN 2051-9680
Publisher: Equinox
DOI: 10.1558/jch.39422

Integrating evolutionary theory and social-ecological systems research to address the sustainability challenges of the Anthropocene

Author(s): Thomas E. Currie; Monique Borgerhoff Mulder; Laurel Fogarty; Maja Schlüter; Peter Søgaard Jørgensen; L. Jamila Haider; Guido Caniglia; Alessandro Tavoni; Raf E.V. Jansen; Carl Folke; Timothy M. Waring
Published in: Philosophical transactions of the royal society B, 2023, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: Royal Society

Willingness to cooperate in shared natural resource management is linked to group identification through perceived efficacy and group norms

Author(s): Anna Rabinovich; Lindsay Walker; Deepali Gohil; Tim Njagi; Thomas E Currie
Published in: Environmental Research Letters, Issue 3, 2023, ISSN 1748-9326
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/acca33

Assessing different historical pathways in the cultural evolution of economic development

Author(s): Adam Flitton; Thomas E. Currie
Published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2022, ISSN 1090-5138
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.11.001

The cultural evolution and ecology of institutions

Author(s): Thomas E. Currie; Marco Campenni; Adam Flitton; Tim Njagi; Enoch Ontiri; Cedric Perret; Lindsay Walker
Published in: Philosophical transactions of the royal society B, 2021, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0047

Playing the political game: the coevolution of institutions with group size and political inequality

Author(s): Simon T. Powers; Cedric Perret; Thomas E. Currie
Published in: Philosophical transactions of the royal society b, Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0303

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, Issue 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, Issue 115/2, 2018, Page(s) E144-E151, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1708800115

Sequence alignment of folk song melodies reveals cross-cultural regularities of musical evolution

Author(s): Patrick E. Savage; Sam Passmore; Gakuto Chiba; Thomas E. Currie; Haruo Suzuki; Quentin D. Atkinson
Published in: Current Biology, 2022, ISSN 0960-9822
Publisher: Cell Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.01.039

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, Issue 7/1, 2020, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: SpringerNature
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-0516-2

Modelling the role of environmental circumscription in the evolution of inequality

Author(s): Cedric Perret; Thomas E. Currie
Published in: Philosophical transactions of the royal society B, 2023, ISSN 1471-2970
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2022.0291

Book chapters (2)

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

The cultural evolution of sociopolitical organization: examining how evolutionary processes acting at different scales have shaped history’s broadest patterns

Author(s): Thomas E. Currie; Cedric Perret
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution, 2023, ISBN 9780191905780
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198869252.013.53

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