Population Size

Associated Documents (23)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Collard, MarkPopulation size as an explanation for patterns in the paleolithic archaeological record: more ca...
Adams, David B.Why there are so few women warriors
Peoples, Hervey C.Subsistence and the evolution of religion
Naroll, RaoulFloor area and settlement population
Collard, MarkPopulation size and cultural evolution in nonindustrial food-producing societies
Ember, Carol R.An evaluation of alternative theories of matrilocal versus patrilocal residence
Brown, ChristianThe state and the supernatural: support for prosocial behavior
Carter, Jr., HaroldMilitary organization as a response to residence and size of population: a cross-cultural study
Collard, MarkCauses of toolkit variation among hunter-gatherers: a test of four competing hypotheses
Bourguignon, ErikaPossession
Ullah, Isaac I. T.Toward a theory of punctuated subsistence change
Kline, Michelle A.Population size predicts technological complexity in oceania
Collard, MarkRisk, mobility or population size?: Drivers of technological richness among contact-period weste...
Bromham, LindellRate of language evolution is affected by population size
Collard, MarkNiche construction and the toolkits of hunter–gatherers and food producers
Pryor, Frederic L.The origins of the economy: a comparative study of distribution in primitive and peasant economies
Acerbi, AlbertoCultural complexity and demography: The case of folktakes
Watts, JosephChristianity spread faster in small, politically structures societies
Hamilton, Marcus J.Nonlinear scaling of space use in human hunter-gatherers
Textor, Robert B.A Cross-Cultural Summary: Hunter-Gatherers
Moran, StevenRevisiting population size vs. phoneme inventory size
Ben-Oren, YotamCultural specialization as a double-edged sword: division into specialized guilds might promote ...
Greenhill, Simon J. Population Size and the Rate of Language Evolution: A Test Across Indo-European, Austronesian, a...

Associated Hypotheses (40)

Main AuthorHypothesis
Collard, MarkControlling for resource risk, population size will predict tool kit complexity (p. S390).
Adams, David B.Population size over 20,000 is positively associated with the existence of frequent internal warfare combined with low frequency of warfare (203)
Peoples, Hervey C.Population size is positively associated with the presence of High Gods (p. 257).
Naroll, RaoulFloor area of dwellings predicts population size of settlements (588).
Collard, MarkPopulation size will be associated with toolkit richness and complexity independent of rain and effective temperature.
Ember, Carol R."Societies with purely external warfare . . . have smaller total populations than societies with internal warfare" (141)
Ember, Carol R.". . . among migrating . . . societies, only those that are relatively small should be matrilocal" (147)
Brown, ChristianCultural transmission, resource scarcity, animal husbandry, community size, and caste stratification will be positively associated with a belief in moralizing gods, while agricultural potential, population size, and external warfare will be negatively associated with a belief in moralizing gods (11).
Carter, Jr., Harold"Large societies are more likely to have professional military organizations than are small societies" (275).
Carter, Jr., Harold"Among small societies, those with uxorilocal/matrilocal residence are more likely to have a professional military organization than are societies with virilocal/patrilocal residence" (276).
Carter, Jr., Harold"Among societies with virilocal/patrilocal residence, large societies are more likely to have a professional military organization than are small societies" (276).
Collard, MarkPopulation size will influence toolkit structure (6).
Bourguignon, ErikaPossession-belief-only will be associated with small society size; possession-trance belief will be associated with large population size (43).
Ullah, Isaac I. T.Using multivariate clustering, it is expected that patterns in human subsistence variability will be found that are consistent with the thery of "attractors" and "repellers." (9580)
Kline, Michelle A.Tool repertoire size will be larger in large populations than in small populations (2561).
Kline, Michelle A.Contact will have a stronger effect on the tool repertoires of small populations than large populations (2561).
Kline, Michelle A.Average tool complexity will be higher in larger populations than in smaller populations (2561).
Collard, MarkTechnological complexity is positively associated with population size (1).
Bromham, LindellLanguages with larger speaker populations had higher rates of gain of new words than did their smaller sister languages (2100).
Bromham, LindellLanguages with a smaller number of speakers had higher rates of loss of lexemes from basic vocabulary than did their larger sister languages (2100).
Bromham, LindellTotal rate of change (word gain plus word loss) is related to population size.
Collard, MarkToolkit complexity and diversity will be positively associated with population size (253).
Collard, MarkThe relationship between population size and toolkit diversity and complexity will be greater among food-producing (i.e. pastoralist, horticulturalist, and agriculturalist) groups than among hunter-gatherers, whereas relationship between risk of resource failure and toolkit diversity and complexity will be greater among hunter-gatherers than among food-producers (253).
Pryor, Frederic L.External trade is positively related to contact with the West and inversely related to the population of the total society (130).
Acerbi, AlbertoPopulation size will have an influence on cultural complexity as measured by the number of animal and magic folk tales
Acerbi, AlbertoPopulation size will have an influence on cultural complexity as measured by the number of narrative motifs in folk tales of magic
Acerbi, AlbertoPopulation size will have an influence on cultural complexity as measured by the number of traits in "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The tale of the kind and the unkind girls"
Watts, JosephA model examining the predictor variables of political complexity, social inequality, and population size, as well as the control variables of cultural isolation and year of missionary arrival, will predict the conversion time of Austronesian cultures to Christianity.
Hamilton, Marcus J.The scaling of an area of space with population size is linear.
Hamilton, Marcus J.Hunters will have greater resource ranges than gatherers.
Textor, Robert B.Hunter-gatherers tend to live in communities without a city or town and with less than 200 people (51, 81).
Moran, StevenHigher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of phonemes in a language.
Moran, StevenHigher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of consonants in a language.
Moran, StevenHigher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of obstruent consonants in a language.
Moran, StevenHigher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of sonorant consonants in a language.
Moran, StevenHigher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of vowels in a language.
Moran, StevenHigher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of monophthongs in a language.
Moran, StevenHigher population sizes are correlated with a higher number of quality-only vowel contrasts in a language.
Ben-Oren, YotamGreater population sizes will predict a greater number of specializations.
Greenhill, Simon J. The number of language speakers will predict the rate of word change in a language.

Associated OCMs

  1. population
  2. linguistic identification
  3. settlement patterns