| Sellen, Daniel W. | 2001 | The infant/child's age at introduction of liquid and solid non-breastmilk foods tends to be lower in preindustrial populations with agricultural or pastoral subsistence types than in hunting and gathering socieities (p. 50). | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Sellen, Daniel W. | 2001 | The infant/child's age at the cessation of breastfeeding is lower in preindustrial populations with agricultural or pastoral subsistence type than in hunting and gathering socieities (p. 50). | Partially supported | 2 | |
| Sellen, Daniel W. | 2001 | The type of food given to children during weaning was qualitatively different across subsistence types (p. 50). | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Lozoff, Betsy | 1979 | A characteristic infant-care pattern existed during most of human history (478). | Supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2010 | Subsistence type is associated with marriage transactions (211) | Supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2010 | Groom's reliance on family for marriage transaction is associated with subsistence type (211) | Supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2010 | For females, marriage type and subsistence type are associated (43) | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2010 | For males, marriage type is associated with subsistence type (43) | Partially supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2010 | Subsistence type predicts gender of decision maker in marriage arrangements (44) | Supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2010 | For both sexes, subsistence type is not associated with age at first marriage (44) | Supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2010 | Subsistence type is associated with ease of divorce (44) | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2010 | Female punishment is associated with subsistence type (45) | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Benyshek, Daniel C. | 2006 | There is no difference in food availability between foragers and agriculturalists (121). | Supported | 2 | |
| Benyshek, Daniel C. | 2006 | There is no difference in food shortage frequency between foragers and agriculturalists (121). | Supported | 2 | |
| Benyshek, Daniel C. | 2006 | There is no difference in food shortage extent between foragers and agriculturalists (121). | Supported | 2 | |
| Katz, Mary Maxwell | 1981 | Variation in paternal care within a species will be correlated with variation in socioecological conditions (157). | Supported | 4 | |
| Jankowiak, William | 2005 | "The greater the complexity in a society, the greater the possibility for envy and resentment to arise [between co-wives]" (83). | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Aberle, David F. | 1961 | "Matrilineal systems are relatively more frequent in the 'dominant horticulture' category than either bilateral or patrilineal systems, at high levels of stratification. They are more commonly in the 'dominant horticulture' category than patrilineal systems at low levels; there is no significant difference between matrilineal and bilateral systems at this level" (698) | Supported | 3 | |
| Aberle, David F. | 1961 | "If we compare 'dominant horticulture' with all [other subsistence types], we find that matrilineal systems tend to be found significantly more often in this category than either patrilineal or bilateral systems" (676) | Supported | 2 | |
| Aberle, David F. | 1961 | "[If political integration is dichotomized into systems with authoritative regulation above the community level and systems at or below the community level] it is possible to see a regular progression among the systems with any agricultural base. As we go from 'plough' agriculture to 'African horticulture,' and thence to 'dominant horticulture' and 'other horticulture,' the percentage of cases at or below the community level rises regularly . . ." (681) | Supported | 2 | |
| Aberle, David F. | 1961 | ". . . stratification is closely connected with subsistence type. . . . 'Plough agriculture' shows the highest stratification, 'African horticulture' next, 'dominant horticulture' next, and 'other horticulture' next, in the agricultural series. 'Pastoralism' shows a level intermediate between 'plough agriculture' and 'African horticulture,' somewhat similar to its position in table 17-5. 'New World pastoralism' and 'extraction' bring up the bottom of the list" (694, 698) | Supported | 2 | |
| Goodenough, Ward H. | 1969 | ". . . there should be a progression upward in mean community size from hunting-collecting, through fishing and herding, to agricultural communities . . ." | Supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2010 | Parental preferences will vary according to the subsistence type of a given society (697). | Supported | 2 | |
| Welch, Michael R. | 1984 | Where a society's subsistence economy generates a more complex form of social organization, there will be a lower concentration of value emphases in children's socialization (p. 365). | Partially supported | 4 | |
| Welch, Michael R. | 1984 | Societies with more diversified subsistence economies will have a lower concentration of value emphases in children's socialization (p. 366). | Not Supported | 4 | |
| Holden, Clare | 1999 | There will be an association between type of subsistence and sexual dimorphism of stature (27). | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Gaulin, Steven J.C. | 1980 | Men in agricultural societies will be more likely to invest in their offspring (via inheritance) than men in hunter-gatherer societies (239). | Supported | 2 | |
| Gaulin, Steven J.C. | 1980 | Agricultural societies will have higher paternal certainty than hunter-gatherer societies (230). | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Nielsen, Francois | 2004 | Subsistence type will be significantly associated with class stratification, jurisdictional hierarchy, inheritance of office of local headman, inheritance of property, presence of games of strategy, and polygyny (299-306). | Supported | 7 | |
| Cone, Cynthia A. | 1979 | "Pastoralists [will] be rated higher on the traits of toughness, maturity, and dutifulness and lower on the traits of submisiveness than the mixed farmers" (292). | Partially supported | 2 | |
| Dirks, Robert | 1993 | Hunters and gatherers will experience less frequent and drastic famine than other subsistence types (38). | Not Supported | 3 | |
| Sanderson, Stephen K. | 2005 | Social stratification, class stratification, subsistence type, intensity of cultivation, use of plow, patrilineality, and patrilocality/virilocality will be positively associated with gender inequality, and female contribution to agriculture will be negatively associated with gender inequality (1427, 1438). | Supported | 8 | |
| Ember, Carol R. | 1997 | Foragers will have less warfare than societies with other subsistence strategies (6). | Supported | 2 | |
| Ember, Carol R. | 1997 | Non-pacified foragers will be less likely to have unpredictable natural disasters than non-pacified food-producers (10). | Supported | 2 | |
| Ember, Carol R. | 1997 | Non-pacified foragers are less likely to socialize for mistrust than non-pacified food-producers (11). | Partially supported | 2 | |
| Ember, Carol R. | 1997 | Frequency of homicide and assault will be related to subsistence type (14). | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Ball, Donald W. | 1972 | Economic-technological variables will be positively related to game complexity (288). | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Hooper, Paul L. | 2006 | There will be a negative association between polygyny and demand for male provisioning (3). | Supported | 3 | |
| Konner, Melvin J. | 1976 | The use of adult or child nurses to care for the infant or young child will be less likely in hunting, gathering, and fishing societies. | Supported | 2 | |
| Konner, Melvin J. | 1976 | Non-maternal contact in hunting, gathering, and fishing societies will most likely be with a play group. | Supported | 2 | |
| Konner, Melvin J. | 1976 | Play group contact will be more common in hunting, gathering, and fishing societies than it is in “at least some more advanced subsistence types.” | Supported | 2 | |
| Porter, Claire C. | 2007 | The net primary productivity of agriculturalists’ will be greater than that of foragers’ land. | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Porter, Claire C. | 2007 | The net primary productivity of intensive agriculturalists land will be greater than that of pastoralists and horticulturalists. | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Mukhopadhyay, Carol Chapnick | 1979 | Controlling for subsistence technology, there will be no significant association between romantic love and subsistence dependence (57). | Supported | 3 | |
| Jankowiak, William | 1996 | In societies with a more labor-intensive subsistence system, drug foods will function as labor enhancers (719). | Supported | 2 | |
| Maxwell, Robert J. | 1989 | Gerontocide will be associated with subsistence type (517). | Supported | 2 | |
| Young, Frank W. | 1965 | Male solidarity has a curvilinear relationship with the complexity of the local community. Where local autonomy prevails and division of labor is minimal, men's organizations are lacking. Under conditions of high social complexity, on the other hand, complex division of labor undermines male solidarity. Therefore, male solidarity is strongest at the middle levels of community complexity (100, 104) | Supported | 3 | |
| Berbesque, J. Colette | 2014 | Hunter-gatherers will experience more famine than those with other modes of subsistence (1). | Not Supported | 2 | |
| Berbesque, J. Colette | 2014 | Controlling for habitat quality, hunter-gatherers will experience more famine than agriculturalists (1). | Not Supported | 3 | |
| Schaefer, James Michael | 1976 | Coded data quality control factors will be associated with some aspects of mode of marriage. | Supported | 14 | |
| Schaefer, James Michael | 1976 | An ordered category of mode of marriage (from gift exchange to dowry) will be associated with general scales of evolution (subisstence type, societal complexity, and settlement pattern). | Supported | 4 | |
| Ember, Carol R. | 2015 | Cross-cultural variation in children's degree of economic work (ages 6-10) is linked to predominant subsistence strategy. | Supported | 2 | |
| Ember, Carol R. | 2015 | Cross-cultural variation in children's degree of childcare (ages 6-10) is linked to predominant subsistence strategy. | Partially supported | 2 | |
| Simmons, Leo W. | 1945 | Participation by the aged in general activities is dependent upon climate, permanency of residence, basic maintenance activities and family organization. The opportunity of the aged to participate in subsistence activities increases among herders and agriculturalists. Aged males are more likely to contribute to infant and child care in matriarchal societies. Midwifery is practiced by aged women regardless of cultural determinants (102, 103, 104) | Supported | 7 | |
| Simmons, Leo W. | 1945 | ". . . irrespective of age, there has been greater access to communal food stores among collectors and fishers and relatively less among hunters, while pronounced negative trends appear among herding and agricultural peoples" (33) | Supported | 2 | |
| Simmons, Leo W. | 1945 | Aged women have tended to acquire property rights in simple societies and within matrilineal types of family organization. Aged men have tended to gain greatest control of property in more complex societies and within patrilineal family organization (49) | Supported | 4 | |
| Simmons, Leo W. | 1945 | Prestige of the aged is negatively correlated with severe climate and impermanent residence. It is positively correlated for aged men and women where they have property rights and influence in government. Aged women enjoy more prestige in hunting-gathering and fishing societies and in societies where matrilineal family organization prevails. Aged men have high prestige where the food supply is constant, where family organization type is patrilineal, in herding and framing societies, and w... | Supported | 8 | |
| Field, Peter B. | 1962 | ". . . Tribes with very primitive hunting and gathering economies tend to have more drunkenness than tribes with more advanced herding and agricultural economies" (52) | Supported | 2 | |
| Volk, Anthony A. | 2013 | Agriculturalist populations will have lower infant and child mortality rates than hunter-gatherer populations. | Supported | 3 | |
| Freeman, Jacob | 2012 | "The relationship between population density and mean residence time is a positive, increasing curvilinear function (434)" | Supported | 3 | |
| Freeman, Jacob | 2012 | "A critical threshold change should occur where the slope of the relationship between habitat residence time and population density changes dramatically, suggesting two distinct social regimes (434)" | Supported | 3 | |
| Freeman, Jacob | 2012 | "Holding population density constant, forager groups should increase the time they spend within a habitat as the rate of resource growth in a habitat declines (434)" | Supported | 4 | |
| Walker, Robert S. | 2015 | There is variability in residence patterns for hunter-gatherer and horticulturalist societies. | Supported | 2 | |
| Walker, Robert S. | 2015 | Hunter-gatherer and lowland South American horticulturalist societies tend toward multilocality. | Supported | 2 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2017 | Subsistence type and marriage type will affect the frequency of premarital relations; this relationship will differ between societies where arranged marriages are prevalent and societies where it is not (p.195). | Partial | 4 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2017 | Subsistence type and marriage type will affect the frequency of men's premarital relations; this relationship will differ between societies where arranged marriages are prevalent and societies where it is not (p.195)." | Partial | 4 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2017 | Subsistence type and marriage type will affect the attitude towards women's premarital relationships; this relationship will differ between societies where arranged marriages are prevalent and societies where it is not (p.195-6)." | Partial | 4 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2017 | Subsistence type and marriage type will affect the double standard with regard to premarital sex; this relationship will differ between societies where arranged marriages are prevalent and societies where it is not (p.195)." | Partial | 4 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2017 | Subsistence type and marriage type will affect the prevalence of extramarital relationships for married men and women; this relationship will differ between societies where arranged marriages are prevalent and societies where it is not (p.197)." | Not Supported | 4 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2017 | Subsistence type and marriage type will affect the double standard with regard to extramarital sex; this relationship will differ between societies where arranged marriages are prevalent and societies where it is not (p.195)." | Partial | 4 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2017 | Subsistence type and marriage type will affect the prevalence rate for rape; this relationship will differ between societies where arranged marriages are prevalent and societies where it is not (p.195)." | Partial | 4 | |
| Apostolou, Menelaos | 2017 | Subsistence type and marriage type will affect attitudes towards rape; this relationship will differ between societies where arranged marriages are prevalent and societies where it is not (p.195)." | Partial | 4 | |
| Hames, Raymond | 2019 | Adult violence mortality is higher among horticulturalists compared to hunter-gatherers (164). | Supported | 2 | |
| Gurven, Michael | 2007 | Human bodies are designed to function well for about seven decades in the environment in which our species evolved (2) | Supported | 2 | |
| Pontzer, Herman | 2021 | Climate and subsistence type will be associated with the percentage of animal foods in the diet. | Supported | 3 | |
| Biagetti, Stefano | 2021 | Subsistence type will be associated with the distribution of drought-coping strategies. | Supported | 2 | |
| Biagetti, Stefano | 2021 | Subsistence type, environmental conditions, and spatial distance between societies will all be associated with the distribution of drought-coping strategies. | Supported | 4 | |
| Cruz y Celis Peniche, Patricio | 2022 | Type of subsistence will predict the degree to which entomophagy is practiced. | Supported | 2 | |
| Winkelman, Michael J. | 2022 | Subsistence type will predict magico-religious practitioner type. | Supported | 2 | |