This View of Life
Magazine

Understanding how we got to our modern world is the critical first step in showing us where we are heading; a new article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers new answers to these critical questions, taking a systematic, scientific look at how complex societies from around the world have developed over the last 10,000 years.

I am appreciative of all the authors who offered their advice. To me, this series effuses a sense of community that I have not found elsewhere.