Trinity data behind new research which suggests common path governed evolution of societies

Scientific historians, using data collected via a platform developed at Trinity College Dublin, have today published a report suggesting that a single dimension of ‘social complexity’ measures the development of around 400 past societies that existed over the last 10,000 years

Scientific historians, using data collected via a platform developed at Trinity College Dublin, have today published a report suggesting that a single dimension of ‘social complexity’ measures the development of around 400 past societies that existed over the last 10,000 years

Probing why today’s world is populated by large, sophisticated, densely populated, and technologically advanced nation-states and asking why so many different states share so many features of governance and structure, the research has just been published in leading international journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.