'Beauty magic': Deceptive sexual signalling and the evolution of ritual

Severity of male ritual costs will be positively associated with polygyny (277).

Sample size is small (n = 13) due to availability of ethnographic data. Female ritual costs were not significantly associated with polygyny.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Kendall's Tau	Supported	p < 0.05	tau = 0.53	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Polygyny	Independent	Regulation Of Marriage, Polygamy
Ritual Costliness	Dependent	Ritual

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Sosis, Richard	2007	Polygyny is positively associated with costly male rites.	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Paige, Jeffery M.	1981	Patrilocality, polygyny, postpartum taboo, and exclusive mother-child sleeping arrangements are positively associated with sex segregation practices (243).	Not Supported	6	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Power, Camilla	1999	Female ritual costs will be positively associated with population density (276).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Spiro, Melford E.	1967	"The greater the socialization anxiety of dependence, the greater the degree to which supernatural nurturance is contingent upon propitiatory ritual" (200)	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Reeves, Edward B.	1989	The occurrence of different ritual types will be associated with social density (227, 231).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author