Today's Guardian carries a piece about ecologist Peter Turchin, author of War and Peace and War, who believes he has discovered the laws of history to explain the rise and fall of empires.
" . . . his experience in the mathematical modelling of animal populations such as lemmings, voles and forest insects has given him confidence that the complex processes of human interactions can be captured by such methods too. "History is not just a huge number of random factors interacting in very complex ways," he says. "There are some strong patterns that come out. And there are some reasonably simple explanations at work for these patterns."
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John, I think the link was truncated.
It should be: http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,,1555330,00.html
Thanks Jim, I'll fix it.
have you read asimov's foundation series?
No, Mart was always the sci-fi buff. Do you recommend it?
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