This study focuses on variables associated with the subordination of community government. A detailed discussion of the specific relationships is presented.

This study focuses on variables associated with the subordination of community government. A detailed discussion of the specific relationships is presented.

This article investigates whether external warfare, intercommunity trade, and female exogamy lead to more amicable intercommunity relationships. Intercommunity amicability is considered a historical facilitator of the large-scale integration of human groups. The absence of internal warfare is used as a measure for intercommunity amicability.

This study focuses on variables associated with the subordination of community government. A detailed discussion of the specific relationships is presented.

This study focuses on variables associated with the subordination of community government. A detailed discussion of the specific relationships is presented.

This study focuses on variables associated with the subordination of community government. A detailed discussion of the specific relationships is presented.

In order to explore the evolution of mutually beneficial transactions in large societies, this experimental study gathered data on the way people in societies of different subsistence types played games simulating interactions with anonymous others. The degree of fairness displayed by different players was correlated with measures of large-scale institutions, such as a market or world religion, that were present in a player’s society. Results suggest that “modern prosociality is not solely the product of an innate psychology, but also reflects norms and institutions that have emerged over the course of human history” (1480).

This study focuses on variables associated with the subordination of community government. A detailed discussion of the specific relationships is presented.

This article considers the consequences of modernization. Factor analysis is used to identify four stages of modernization: 1) changes in education, government, and trade; 2) changes in health, technology, and transportation; 3) changes in family, religion, and toilet; and 4) changes in behavior. The authors then consider five trends they expect to be associated with modernization and test whether they develop over the course of the four stages. Results indicate that these 5 trends—increased cultural complexity, female status, pacification, suicide, and social stress—are associated with only the first and fourth stages.

This study focuses on variables associated with the subordination of community government. A detailed discussion of the specific relationships is presented.