Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia

Proceedings of the Royal Society B Vol/Iss. 282 Published In Pages: ??
By Watts, Joseph, Greenhill, Simon J. , Atkinson, Quentin D., Currie, Thomas E., Bulbulia, Joseph, Gray, Russell D.

Hypothesis

The presence of moralizing high gods facilitates and sustains high political complexity (2, 5).

Note

Authors compare models to test alternative causal hypotheses.

Test

Test NameSupportSignificanceCoefficientTail
reversible-jump Markov chain Monte Carlo analysisNot SupportedNot ApplicableUNKNOWNUNKNOWN