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Open access Oct 2026

Energy Competition as the Driving Mechanism for Civilizational Complexity Transitions

The long-term rise of civilizational complexity on macroscopic scales has been widely explained from technological or institutional perspectives, yet a unified mechanism linking physical-level constraints to civilizational-level dynamics remains absent. Drawing on dissipative structure theory, energy competition can be...

Chi Zhang · 0 citations

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