When ancient humans cried out for answers in a chaotic world filled with volcanic eruptions, tornadoes, meteor strikes and other calamitous events, they often looked for supernatural explanations.

For the past decade, complexity scientist Peter Turchin has been working with collaborators to bring together the most current and structured body of knowledge about human history in one place: the ...

Starting around 3,000 years ago, a wave of innovation began to sweep through human societies around the globe. For the following millennium, the continued emergence of new technologies had a dramatic ...

In the second segment of last week’s essay in this column, I joined my voice to the voices of thousands of those greatly excited by the declaration by UNESCO of Port Harcourt as the Book Week Capital ...