1. Andrey Vitalievich Korotayev is a Russian anthropologist, economic historian, comparative political scientist, demographer and sociologist, with major contributions to world-systems theory, cross-cultural studies, Near Eastern history, Big History, and mathematical modelling of social and economic macrodynamics.
Andrey Korotayev is currently the Director of the Centre for Stability and Risk Analysis at the HSE University in Moscow, and a Senior Research Professor at the Center for Big History and System Forecasting of the Institute of Oriental Studies as well as in the Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Andrey Korotayev earned a PhD in 1993 from Manchester University, and in 1998 a Doctor of Sciences degree from the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Andrey Korotayev has made important contributions to the following fields.
Andrey Korotayev has shown that the world urban population growth curve has up till recently followed a quadratic-hyperbolic pattern.
The hyperbolic pattern of the world population growth has been demonstrated by Andrey Korotayev to arise from a second-order positive feedback between the population size and the rate of technological growth.
Andrey Korotayev has produced a number of mathematical models describing specifically long-term political-demographic dynamics of Egypt and used them for a demographic structural analysis of the 2011 Egyptian Revolution.
Andrey Korotayev was one of the first to predict and assess the June 2013 Egyptian protests.
Andrey Korotayev suggests that the hyperbolic trend observed for the world population growth after 10000 BCE does appear to be primarily a product of the growth of the World System.
Articles from journals The presence of the hyperbolic trend itself indicates that the major part of the entity in question had some systemic unity, and Andrey Korotayev insists that the evidence for this unity is readily available.
Andrey Korotayev interprets this as a tangible result of the World System's functioning.
Andrey Korotayev has detected Kondratieff waves in the global dynamics of invention activities.
From a complexity perspective Andrey Korotayev's establishes a key point, that of the bifurcations of social and kinship organisation that coalesced historically around the differential practices of the major world religions.
The Murdockian comparative approach, up to Andrey Korotayev, had developed to the point where the nonindependence of cultures was well-recognized, and ways of taking the larger configurations of cultural systems into account had been reckoned to lie, in the latest iteration, along lines of high-order proto-linguistic communities.
Andrey Korotayev's introduction and conclusion suggest that an objectivist natural history approach to human history, in which subjective factors are of local importance but fade out in terms of lasting effects over generations, is a valid approach to the "pre-Axial" condition of human societies, while a subjectivist history of consciousness is a necessary complement to the "post-Axial" condition.
Andrey Korotayev succeeds in placing these two complementary approaches in context and showing their linkages in terms of how subjective and religious factors play out in human history alongside objective factors such as demography and ecology, each informing the other.
Andrey Korotayev's tests have shown that the female contribution to subsistence does correlate significantly with matrilocal residence in general; however, this correlation is masked by a general polygyny factor.
Andrey Korotayev was one of the pioneers of the study of correlation between spatial distributions of folklore-mythological motifs and genetic markers, as well as linguistic and sociostructural characteristics, and produced in this area significant results with respect to the deep history reconstruction.
Andrey Korotayev concludes that, because the communal democracy correlates positively with the supracommunal one, the Christianization of Europe might have contributed to the development of modern democracy by helping to destroy unilineal descent organisation in this region.
Islamization, along with an area's inclusion in the 8th-century Arab-Islamic Khalifate has been demonstrated by Andrey Korotayev to be a strong and significant predictor of parallel cousin marriage.
Andrey Korotayev has shown that while there is a clear functional connection between Islam and FBD marriage, the prescription to marry a FBD does not appear to be sufficient to persuade people to actually marry thus, even if the marriage brings with it economic advantages.
Andrey Korotayev has made a special contribution in this field by detecting principal trends in the evolution of Yemeni cultures through application of quantitative methods to the analysis of mass epigraphic sources in the Sabaic language.
Andrey Korotayev has thereby discovered the phenomenon of consolidation of the clan organisation in North-East Yemen in the late 1st millennium BCE as well as the transition from chiefdoms to tribes in early medieval Yemen.
Andrey Korotayev has done a significant contribution to the study of the origins of Islam.
Andrey Korotayev has written over 35 books and 370 articles dealing with his research interests [4].