Cultural macroevolution matters

Specific beliefs in moral high gods will be positively associated with the evolution of political complexity.

Evident in just 6 of 96 tested societies. Results showed that moral high gods increased after the evolution of political complexity.

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
`UNKNOWN`	Not Supported	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Political Complexity	Dependent	Territorial Organization
Moral High Gods	Independent	Religious Beliefs, Spirits And Gods

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Whitehouse, Harvey	2019	RETRACTED: Contrary to the Moral High Gods hypothesis, complex societies precede moralizing gods (227).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2015	High political complexity has coevolved with moralizing high gods (2, 5)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Watts, Joseph	2015	The presence of moralizing high gods facilitates and sustains high political complexity (2, 5).	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Stark, Rodney	2001	Belief in moralizing High Gods will be associated with cultural complexity (621).	Supported	8	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Whitehouse, Harvey	2019	RETRACTED: There is an association between moral gods and social complexity (227).	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author