Ecological Variables

Associated Documents (2)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Mathew, SarahBehavioural variation in 172 small-scale societies indicates that social learning is the main mo...
Wormley, Alexandra S.How much cultural variation around the globe is explained by ecology?

Associated Hypotheses (8)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Mathew, SarahBehavioral traits will be affected by both cultural history and ecology (5).
Mathew, SarahCultural history will have a stronger effect on the probability of a trait being present than ecology (5).
Mathew, SarahCultural history will have a larger effect than ecology in a majority of traits in the categories of technology and material culture, marriage and family organization, economic organization, ceremonies and rituals, supernatural beliefs, kinship system, political organization, warfare, settlement patterns, and sodalities (5).
Mathew, SarahThe effect of ecology will be greater than culture history in a majority of the traits related to subsistence (5).
Mathew, SarahCultural phylogeny will be a stronger predictor than ecology for a majority of traits, except for technology and material culture traits (5).
Mathew, SarahBoth cultural phylogeny and ecology will be stronger predictors than spatial distance for a majority of traits in all categories (5).
Mathew, SarahThe effects of cultural phylogeny will tend to decline over time (5).
Wormley, Alexandra S.Ecological variables will have a substantial overall positive correlation to human cultural variation.

Associated OCMs

  1. climate
  2. topography and geology
  3. fauna
  4. flora