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    "pk": 38161,
    "title": "A Historical Conspiracy: Competition, Opportunity, and the Emergence of Direction in History",
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    "abstract": "I describe historical patterns that I believe would emerge in any system characterized by living things competing for locally scarce resources. I then consider the search for patterns and their explanation in the context of an intellectual climate dominated by anti-adaptationist rhetoric and doubts about the validity of scientific approaches to history. Notwithstanding this hostile environment, I present a summary of the economic principles that in my view not only account for historical patterns but also serve to predict future trends and postdict past ones not yet known. A positive feedback between consumers and resources – a historical conspiracy of sorts – implies the existence of inherent directions in the history of living things, including humans.",
    "language": "en",
    "license": null,
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "History"
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6gh17580",
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        {
            "first_name": "Geerat",
            "middle_name": "J",
            "last_name": "Vermeij",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of California, Davis",
            "department": "None"
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    "date_submitted": "2011-03-20T09:00:00+02:00",
    "date_accepted": "2011-03-20T09:00:00+02:00",
    "date_published": "2011-03-31T10:00:00+03:00",
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