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View article: Effect of COVID-19 on pediatric gunshot wounds to the head at a level 1 trauma center
Effect of COVID-19 on pediatric gunshot wounds to the head at a level 1 trauma center Open
Background: The United States (US) has one of the highest rates of gunshot-related incidents in the world. Gunshot wounds to the head (GSWH) in the pediatric population are also common, with high morbidity and mortality rates. Methods: We …
View article: Synthetic Replacements for Human Survey Data? The Perils of Large Language Models
Synthetic Replacements for Human Survey Data? The Perils of Large Language Models Open
Large Language Models (LLMs) offer new research possibilities for social scientists, but their potential as "synthetic data" is still largely unknown. In this paper, we investigate how accurately the popular closed-source LLM ChatGPT can r…
View article: Indexes
Indexes Open
Her research foci include religion and magic in the Greek and Roman worlds, digital humanities, maritime mobility, archaeometallurgy, and anthropological and comparative approaches to the ancient Mediterranean.Her current project explores …
View article: 2021 Site Environmental Report (SER) for the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)
2021 Site Environmental Report (SER) for the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) Open
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL, Berkeley Lab) is a multiprogram scientific facility operated by the University of California (UC) for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Berkeley Lab’s research is focused on the physical, bio…
View article: Moralizing Supernatural Punishment and Reward: A Response to Critics
Moralizing Supernatural Punishment and Reward: A Response to Critics Open
In this contribution we respond to three critiques of our 2019 article ‘Complex Societies Precede Moralizing Gods throughout World History.’ We clarify that our research does not, as our critics suppose, support the claim that moralizing g…
View article: Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: a test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank Open
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in
\nworld history have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been
\nlimited by the availability of quantitative data to test competing
\ntheories, by diverg…
View article: Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake”
Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake” Open
This Retake article presents a corrected and extended version of a Letter published in Nature (Whitehouse et al., 2019) which set out to test the Big Gods hypothesis proposing that beliefs in moralizing punitive deities drove the evolution…
View article: Testing the Big Gods Hypothesis with global historical data: a review and ‘retake’
Testing the Big Gods Hypothesis with global historical data: a review and ‘retake’ Open
This ‘Retake’ article presents a corrected and extended version of a Letter published in Nature (Whitehouse et al., 2019) which set out to test the Big Gods hypothesis proposing that beliefs in moralizing punitive deities drove the evoluti…
View article: Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank [preprint V.8]
Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank [preprint V.8] Open
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in world history\nhave been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been limited by the availability of\nquantitative data to test competing theories, by divergent …
View article: Explaining the Rise of Moralizing Religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank
Explaining the Rise of Moralizing Religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank Open
The causes, consequences, and timing of the rise of moralizing religions in world history have been the focus of intense debate. Progress has been limited by the availability of quantitative data to test competing theories, by divergent id…
View article: Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe, eds, <i>Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years</i>
Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe, eds, <i>Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years</i> Open
Luther H. Martin and Donald Wiebe, eds, Religion Explained? The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-Five Years (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2017), xi + 260 pp. $102.60 (hbk). ISBN: 978-1-35003-246- 0; $39.95 (pbk). ISBN: 978-1-…
View article: A new era in the study of global history is born but it needs to be nurtured
A new era in the study of global history is born but it needs to be nurtured Open
In this issue, Slingerland et al. criticize the quality of the data from Seshat: Global History Databank utilized in our Nature paper entitled “Complex Societies Precede Moralizing Gods throughout World History”. Their critique centres aro…
View article: Reply to Beheim et al.: Reanalyses confirm robustness of original analyses
Reply to Beheim et al.: Reanalyses confirm robustness of original analyses Open
As we noted prominently, our initially uploaded preprint was a "non-peer-reviewed draft subject to revision". We have now recognized and corrected an important error in our data and code (details at https://github.com/pesavage/moralizing-g…
View article: An introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank
An introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank Open
Seshat: Global History Databank, established in 2011, was initiated by an ever-growing team of social scientists and humanities scholars to test theories about the evolution of complex societies (Francois et al. 2016; Turchin et al. 2015).…
View article: The revisionary aesthetic of Suzan-Lori Parks: hear the bones sing, write it down
The revisionary aesthetic of Suzan-Lori Parks: hear the bones sing, write it down Open
This project examines how Suzan-Lori Parks’s works in every genre—not just her plays, but also her novel and screenplays—look back to literary and cultural artifacts in order to interrogate and to invigorate their legacies. Parks thus crea…
View article: Replication Data for: Ethnic Networks
Replication Data for: Ethnic Networks Open
Active research on a wide range of political contexts centers on ethnicity’s role in collective action. Many theories posit that information flows more easily in ethnically homogeneous areas, facilitating collective action, because social …