Archive - Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin

Demography of Polities I

Oct 7 • Peter Turchin

Artificial Scientists Are Not as Good as Human Scientists

Especially when humans work with machines

Oct 1 • Peter Turchin

September 2026

What Came First in Human Evolution: Intelligence or Culture?

Where Yuval Noah Harari went wrong

Sep 27 • Peter Turchin

Túpac Amaru II’s Rebellion according to Structural Demographic Theory

Sophomore Lynnfield High School, MA, USA

Sep 19 • Andrei Peña

More on the War over War

The resurgence of fortified landscapes in West Africa

Sep 12 • Peter Turchin

Cliodynamics and AI: the mid-2026 update

And a new AI-generated compendium on the state of Cliodynamics

Sep 10 • Peter Turchin

Eight Centuries of Wages in Britain II

Secular Cycles of Well-Being in the Industrial Period

Sep 6 • Peter Turchin

August 2026

Eight Centuries of Wages in Britain I

Secular Cycles of Well-Being in the Pre-Industrial Period

Aug 30 • Peter Turchin

Human Unpredictability is Overrated

And History Is Not “One Damn Thing After Another”

Aug 22 • Peter Turchin

Ages of Religion

Civilizational Transformations in Human History

Aug 17 • Peter Turchin

Why Is College So Expensive?

Two hundred years of Yale tuition data tell a remarkable story

Aug 10 • Peter Turchin

“Our Honest Truth”—“Their Lying Propaganda”

Making Sense in the Polarized World

Aug 2 • Peter Turchin

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