Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative Analyses of Cultural Evolution Require Engagement with Historical and Archaeological Research

Authors

• Thomas E. Currie, University of Exeter
• Peter Turchin, University of Connecticut
• Harvey Whitehouse, University of Oxford
• Pieter François, University of Oxford
• Kevin Feeney, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Daniel Mullins, University of Oxford
• Daniel Hoyer, iSeshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute
• Christina Collins, University of Exeter
• Stephanie Grohmann, University of Oxford
• Patrick Savage, University of Oxford
• Gavin Mendel-Gleason, Trinity College Dublin
• Edward Turner, Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute
• Agathe Dupeyron, Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute
• Enrico Cioni, Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute
• Jenny Reddish, Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute
• Jill Levine, Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute
• Greine Jordan, Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute
• Eva Brandl, Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute
• Alice Williams, University of Exeter
• Rudolf Cesaretti, Arizona State University
• Marta Krueger, Adam Mickiewicz University
• Alessandro Ceccarelli, University of Cambridge
• Joe Figliulo-Rosswurm, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Po-Ju Tuan, Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute
• Peter Peregrine, Lawrence University
• Arkadiusz Marciniak, Adam Mickiewicz University
• Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Austrian Academy of Sciences
• Nikolay Kradin, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Andrey Korotayev, National Research University
• Alessio Palmisano, University College London
• David Baker, Macquarie University
• Julye Bidmead, Chapman UniversityFollow
• Peter Bol, Harvard University
• David Christian, Macquarie University
• Connie Cook, Lehigh University
• Alan Covey, University of Texas at Austin
• Gary Feinman, Museum of Natural History
• Árni Daníel Júlíusson, University of Iceland
• Axel Kristinsson, Reykjavik Academy
• John Miksic, National University of Singapore
• Ruth Mostern, University of Pittsburgh
• Cameron Petrie, University of Cambridge
• Peter Rudiak-Gould, Independent Scholar
• Barend ter Haar, University of Oxford
• Vesna Wallace, Chapman University
• Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania
• Liye Xie, University of Toronto
• John Baines, University of Oxford
• Elizabeth Bridges, University of South Carolina - Columbia
• Joseph Manning, Yale University
• Bruce Lockhart, National University of Singapore
• Amy Bogaard, University of Oxford
• Charles Spencer, American Museum of Natural History

Document Type

Response or Comment

Publication Date

6-26-2018

Abstract

"We thank Tosh et al. for their interest in our research but note that their analyses do not undermine the main findings of our article."

Comments

This article was originally published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, volume 115, issue 26, in 2018. DOI:10.1073/pnas.1807312115

Recommended Citation

Currie TE, et al. (2018) Reply to Tosh et al: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 115(26):E5841-E5842. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1807312115

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