About the Authors

Georg Orlandi

Contributed equally to this work with: Georg Orlandi, Daniel Hoyer

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

georg.orlandi@gmail.com

Affiliations School of Letters, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Japan, Italian School of East Asian Studies, Kyoto, Japan

Daniel Hoyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Georg Orlandi, Daniel Hoyer

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute, San Antonio, Florida, United States of America, George Brown College, Toronto, Canada, Evolution Institute, San Antonio, Florida, United States of America

Hongjun Zhao

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation School of Business and Finance, Shanghai Normal University, Economics, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China

James S. Bennett

Roles Conceptualization, Software, Supervision, Visualization

Affiliation University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, DC, United States of America

Majid Benam

Roles Data curation, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria

Kathryn Kohn

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Federation of American Scientists, Washington, DC, United States of America

Peter Turchin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Austria, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America, Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.