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Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research [Social Sciences]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America ( IF 11.1 ) Pub Date : 2018-06-26 , DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1807312115
Thomas E. Currie 1 , Peter Turchin 2, 3 , Harvey Whitehouse 4, 5 , Pieter François 4, 6 , Kevin Feeney 7 , Daniel Mullins 4, 8 , Daniel Hoyer 9 , Christina Collins 1 , Stephanie Grohmann 4 , Patrick Savage 4 , Gavin Mendel-Gleason 7 , Edward Turner 9 , Agathe Dupeyron 9 , Enrico Cioni 9 , Jenny Reddish 9 , Jill Levine 9 , Greine Jordan 9 , Eva Brandl 9, 10 , Alice Williams 3 , Rudolf Cesaretti 11 , Marta Krueger 12 , Alessandro Ceccarelli 13 , Joe Figliulo-Rosswurm 14 , Po-Ju Tuan 9 , Peter Peregrine 15, 16 , Arkadiusz Marciniak 12 , Johannes Preiser-Kapeller 17 , Nikolay Kradin 18 , Andrey Korotayev 19 , Alessio Palmisano 20 , David Baker 21 , Julye Bidmead 22 , Peter Bol 23 , David Christian 21 , Connie Cook 24, 25 , Alan Covey 26 , Gary Feinman 27 , Árni Daníel Júlíusson 28 , Axel Kristinsson 29 , John Miksic 30 , Ruth Mostern 31 , Cameron Petrie 13, 32 , Peter Rudiak-Gould 33 , Barend ter Haar 34 , Vesna Wallace 22 , Victor Mair 35 , Liye Xie 36 , John Baines 37 , Elizabeth Bridges 38 , Joseph Manning 39 , Bruce Lockhart 40 , Amy Bogaard 41 , Charles Spencer 42
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We thank Tosh et al. (1) for their interest in our research (2) but note that their analyses do not undermine the main findings of our article. Their suggestion that polity population divided by polity area should be one of the social complexity dimensions raises a number of issues. What does this ratio mean at large spatial scales, where populations are concentrated in large urban centers and much of the territory is not heavily populated? How are societies distributed across this variable and why? For example, a small-scale “simple” society could have a very high population density if it has access to a rich resource base. Tosh et al. (1) do not provide sufficient information or context to meaningfully …

中文翻译:

回复托什等人:对文化进化的定量分析需要参与历史和考古研究[社会科学]

我们感谢Tosh等。(1)是因为他们对我们的研究感兴趣(2),但请注意,他们的分析并没有损害我们文章的主要发现。他们提出的将政体人口除以政体面积应该是社会复杂性维度之一的建议引起了许多问题。在大的空间尺度上,这个比例是什么意思?在这种情况下,人口集中在大型城市中心,而大部分领土却没有人口稠密?社会如何在这个变量中分布,为什么?例如,如果小规模的“简单”社会能够获得丰富的资源基础,则其人口密度可能很高。Tosh等。(1)没有提供足够的信息或背景来有意义地……
更新日期:2018-06-27
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