Cultural History

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Mathew, SarahBehavioural variation in 172 small-scale societies indicates that social learning is the main mo...

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Mathew, SarahBehavioral traits will be affected by both cultural history and ecology (5).
Mathew, SarahCultural history will have a stronger effect on the probability of a trait being present than ecology (5).
Mathew, SarahCultural history will have a larger effect than ecology in a majority of traits in the categories of technology and material culture, marriage and family organization, economic organization, ceremonies and rituals, supernatural beliefs, kinship system, political organization, warfare, settlement patterns, and sodalities (5).
Mathew, SarahThe effect of ecology will be greater than culture history in a majority of the traits related to subsistence (5).

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