Social norms are the glue that holds society together, yet our knowledge of them remains
heavily intellectually siloed. This article provides an interdisciplinary review of the emerging …

Because of concerns that ongoing climate change could lead to a possible collapse of
human civilization, the topic of societal (civilization) collapse has emerged as especially …

During the Holocene, the scale and complexity of human societies increased markedly.
Generations of scholars have proposed different theories explaining this expansion, which …

This chapter presents the results of using the set of basic models outlined in Chapter
“Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics. A General Approach” to model …

This chapter presents the results of the application of the set of basic models outlined in
chapter “Modeling Social Self-Organization and Historical Dynamics. A General …

Standardized cross-cultural databases of the arts are critical to a balanced scientific
understanding of the performing arts, and their role in other domains of human society. This …

Evolutionary theories of religion frequently assume that the presence of moralizing gods is
positively associated with social complexity. An influential source of evidence for this …

This Retake article presents a corrected and extended version of a Letter published in
Nature (Whitehouse et al., 2019) which set out to test the Big Gods hypothesis proposing …

This paper seeks to introduce a strategy of science communication: Total SciComm or all-out
science communication. We proposed that to maximize the outreach and impact, scientists …

Following the publication of this Letter, Beheim and colleagues submitted a Matters Arising
in which they argued that our primary results were called into question by our treatment of …