Universal patterns in cultural evolution: an empirical analysis using Guttman scaling

Guttman will support general sequences in cultural evolution in prehistoric samples (145)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
scalogram	Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Cultural Traits Important In Cultivating Sequence	`UNKNOWN`	`NONE`

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Shiels, Dean	1986	Cultural complexity will be positively associated with legal development (4).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Naroll, Raoul	1976	"If warfare is the selective mechanism of cultural evolution, then militarily successful societies should tend to be higher on the scale of cultural evolution than militarily unsuccessful societies" (99-100)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Perkins, Revere Dale	1980	Cultural complexity will be positively associated with syntactic devices	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Gray, Russell D.	2017	Broad supernatural punishments will be positively associated with the evolution of political complexity.	Partially Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Gray, Russell D.	2017	Social Stratification will be positively associated with the evolution of political complexity.	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author