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Peter Turchin

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Russian-American complexity scientist

United StatesScientistsBorn 1957 · age 69
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Peter Valentinovich Turchin is a Russian-American scientist who specializes in an area of study he and his colleagues developed called cliodynamics - mathematical modeling and statistical analysis of the dynamics of historical societies.

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Peter Turchin
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I began my career... as an ecologist... studying the population dynamics of beetles, butterflies, mice, and deer.

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Peter Turchin
said · 2023
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[T]here are important recurring patterns... throughout... human history over the past ten thousand years.

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Peter Turchin
said · 2023
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[C]omplex human societies at base and at some abstract level, are organized according to the same general principles.

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2021Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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United States
Category
Scientists
Type
Scientist
Status
living
Dates
Born 1957 · age 69
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