Social Practice and Shared History, Not Social Scale, Structure Cross-Cultural Complexity in Kinship Systems

Topics in Cognitive Science Vol/Iss. . Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Published In Pages: 1-22
By Rácz, Péter, Passmore, Sam, Jordan, Fiona M.

Hypothesis

Simpler kinship systems are positively correlated with extensive agriculture (10).

Note

Robust predictors = (-1.5>z>1.5).

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
UNKNOWNNot Supportedz-score = 0.285UNKNOWNUNKNOWN

Variables

Variable NameVariable Type OCM Term(s)
Extensive agriculture IndependentTillage
Complexity of kinship system DependentKinship Terminology