Geography is not destiny: A quantitative test of Diamond's axis of orientation hypothesis

Cultural similarity between societies will be negatively impacted by high environmental dissimilarities.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Quantitative analysis	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Cultural similarity	Dependent	Comparative Evidence, Acculturation And Culture Contact, Total Culture
Aridity turnover	Independent	Climate
Topographic travel costs	Independent	Topography And Geology
Temperature turnover	Independent	Climate
Climate-related path lengths	Independent	Location, Climate

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Purzycki, Benjamin Grant	2019	Religious similarity of distant recipients is positively correlated with sacrifice (3).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Jones, Doug	2011	Matrilocality will be associated with positioning on a cultural frontier	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ross, Robert M.	2016	The folktale inventories of groups that diverged more recently will exhibit greater similarity than those of groups that diverged less recently (49).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Jackson, Joshua Conrad	2019	Geographic proximity is positively correlated with similarity in emotion semantics across language families (1519).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Gavin, Michael C.	2018	Societies that are linguistically similar will be more likely to share dominant subsistence strategies (8)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author