Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin

Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin

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Tracking Well-Being by Population Height
A Cross-National Comparison
Mar 8 • Peter Turchin
Operation Epic Fury
Viewing the Conflict through the Lens of Cliodynamic
Mar 5 • Peter Turchin

February 2026

Multilevel Selection II
MLS in Cultural Macroevolution
Feb 26 • Peter Turchin
The Feverish Library
Or, how (not) to do history with LLMs
Feb 21 • Jenny Reddish
Civilization without God
Religion and the Evolution of Complex Societies
Feb 17 • Peter Turchin
Booms and Busts
What History Tells Us about the "Depopulation Crisis"
Feb 14 • Peter Turchin
The Controversy over Multilevel Selection
Science Proceeds by Paradigm Shifts
Feb 11 • Peter Turchin
Unravelling Hallucinations
A Research Assistant’s Experience of LLM-Generated Historical Data
Feb 7 • Samantha Holder
Revisiting a 2017 Prediction
Making structural-demographic theory more quantitative
Feb 4 • Peter Turchin
Sick Man Europe
Imperial Frontiers and Asabiya Black Holes, Europe: 400 BC - 2025
Feb 1 • Peter Turchin

January 2026

A Video Illustrating Ideas in "End Times"
"Peter Turchin's End Times Dissected" by Bernard Tannett
Jan 30 • Peter Turchin
“Persuasively Wrong"
The challenges of using LLMs in Research
Jan 24 • Jakob Zsambok
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