Dr.
Charles S. Spencer
American Museum of Natural History
Anthropologist; Museum administrator
Area
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Specialty
Anthropology and Archaeology
Elected
2006
Chairman, Division of Anthropology. Known for explaining the origins of hierarchical societies and the rise of the world's first political states. Combines evolutionary concepts like tempo, mode, variation, and selection with sociopolitical concepts like agency, factionalism, and militarism. Proposed a mathematical model of pristine state formation.
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