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The Importance of Empirical Patterns in History
Ganschurmsen: I started looking for data to test the models, and to my great surprise, there is a lot of data. This suggests that there may be some general principles, those of history, if you wish, that underlie these patterns. But from what I hear, this is significantly different from another famous biologist who did some scientific approaches to history which is Jared Diamond's work. So, do you see that as a continuation? Your work is a continuation of the kind of approach, or as I suspect, actually something quite different? Well, no, I see us working towards the same goal. Both he and I are looking for general patterns, and also we