Category: Sociology
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Historical data suggest hard knocks to human societies build long-term resilience.
Credit: Joshua Rawson-Harris on Unsplash Frequent disturbances to human societies boost the ability of populations to resist and recover from subsequent downturns, a Nature paper indicates. The study, which analyzes 30,000 years of human history, has implications for future population growth and resilience and for contemporary resilience-building initiatives. Resilience, the ability to withstand and recover after crises,…