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Or, how (not) to do history with LLMs
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Civilization without God
Religion and the Evolution of Complex Societies
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Booms and Busts
What History Tells Us about the "Depopulation Crisis"
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The Controversy over Multilevel Selection
Science Proceeds by Paradigm Shifts
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Unravelling Hallucinations
A Research Assistant’s Experience of LLM-Generated Historical Data
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Cliodynamica by Peter Turchin
Ancient history and today's politics through the lens of Cliodynamics ("history as science"). Recent books: End Times (2023), The Great Holocene Transformation (2025).
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