Human responses to environmental extremeness and uncertainty: a cross-cultural perspective

The degree of polygyny will be greatest in fluctuating environments and least in predictably constant environments (238).

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Spearman’s rank-order correlation	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Environmental Predictability	Independent	Climate
Polygyny	Dependent	Polygamy

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Gavin, Michael C.	2018	Animal husbandry will be more likely to be a dominant subsistence strategy in regions with less productive environments (8)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
White, Douglas R.	1988	Environmental quality and homogeneity will be positively associated with polygyny (p. 876).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Low, Bobbi S.	1988	Degree of polygyny, as well as the degree of non-sororal polygyny, will be positively related to pathogen stress (239).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hewlett, Barry S.	2014	Among contemporary foragers, populations in tropical forest environments will have more frequent allomaternal nursing than those in arid environments (6).	Some support	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ringen, Erik J.	2019	Societies with less predictable environments will have more daily food sharing norms than those with more predictable environments.	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author