Reply to Tosh et al.: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research

Affiliations

• ¹ Human Behaviour & Cultural Evolution Group, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall TR10 9FE, United Kingdom; t.currie@exeter.ac.uk.
• ² Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269.
• ³ Complexity Science Hub Vienna, 1080 Vienna, Austria.
• ⁴ Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6PE, United Kingdom.
• ⁵ Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4AU, United Kingdom.
• ⁶ St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3LN, United Kingdom.
• ⁷ School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland.
• ⁸ Institute of English Studies, University of London, London WC1E 7HU, United Kingdom.
• ⁹ Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute, San Antonio, FL 33576.
• ¹⁰ Human Behaviour & Cultural Evolution Group, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Cornwall TR10 9FE, United Kingdom.
• ¹¹ Department of Anthropology, University College London, London WC1H OBW, United Kingdom.
• ¹² School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287.
• ¹³ Institute of Archaeology, Adam Mickiewicz University, 61-614 Poznań, Poland.
• ¹⁴ Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, United Kingdom.
• ¹⁵ Department of History, University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106.
• ¹⁶ Anthropology and Museum Studies, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI 54911.
• ¹⁷ Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM 87501.
• ¹⁸ Division for Byzantine Research, Institute for Medieval Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences, 1020 Vienna, Austria.
• ¹⁹ Department of Anthropology, Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnology, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690001, Russia.
• ²⁰ Laboratory of Monitoring of Destabilization Risks, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow 125267, Russia.
• ²¹ Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London WC1H 0PY, United Kingdom.
• ²² Big History Institute, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia.
• ²³ Department of Religious Studies, Chapman University, Orange, CA 92866.
• ²⁴ East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138.
• ²⁵ Department of Modern Languages & Literatures, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA 18015.
• ²⁶ School of Historical Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton, NJ 08540.
• ²⁷ Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712.
• ²⁸ Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL 60605.
• ²⁹ History, University of Iceland, IS-108 Reykjavik, Iceland.
• ³⁰ History, Reykjavik Academy, IS-108 Reykjavik, Iceland.
• ³¹ Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119260.
• ³² Department of History, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.
• ³³ Trinity College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TQ, United Kingdom.
• ³⁴ Independent Scholar, Toronto, ON M6P 1T6, Canada.
• ³⁵ Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford OX2 6LU, United Kingdom.
• ³⁶ Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
• ³⁷ Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 2S2, Canada.
• ³⁸ Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2LE, United Kingdom.
• ³⁹ Institute of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.
• ⁴⁰ Department of History, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520.
• ⁴¹ Department of History, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117570.
• ⁴² Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 2PG, United Kingdom.
• ⁴³ Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY 10024.