Behavioural variation in 172 small-scale societies indicates that social learning is the main mode of human adaptation

Both cultural phylogeny and ecology will be stronger predictors than spatial distance for a majority of traits in all categories (5).

Cultural phylogeny was defined as pairwise distance in a language phylogeny and spatial distance as pairwise geographic distance.

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

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Geographic distance	Independent	Location
Linguistic distance	Independent	Linguistic Identification
Ecological Variables	Independent	Climate, Fauna, Flora, Topography And Geology
Behavioral Variables	Dependent	`NONE`

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Mathew, Sarah	2015	The effects of cultural phylogeny will tend to decline over time (5).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Mathew, Sarah	2015	The effect of cultural history will be largely driven by cultural phylogeny, not spatial distance (5).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Mathew, Sarah	2015	Cultural phylogeny will be a stronger predictor than ecology for a majority of traits, except for technology and material culture traits (5).	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Orlando Fernández, Javier, Bonilla, Johnatan, Ángela Rocha, Luz	2024	Certain environmental variables (including agroclimatic suitability, annual precipitation, water availability, economic activity and access to roads) exhibit significant spatial autocorrelation within Colombian dialect regions, and are therefore correlated with linguistic distance.	Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Axelsen, Jacob Bock	2014	Linguistic diversity will be predicted by some of 14 environmental variables across continental regions universally (2).	Supported	15	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author