Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1804, 2015, Pages

  Watts, Joseph ^a   Greenhill, Simon J ^b   Atkinson, Quentin D ^a,c   Currie, Thomas E ^d   Bulbulia, Joseph ^e   Gray, Russell D ^a,b,c,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^f Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology & Evolution   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Evolution of religion; Phylogenetics; Political complexity; Social complexity; Supernatural punishment

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; COMPLEXITY; EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; PHYLOGENETICS; RELIGION;

AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND; BAYES THEOREM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; HUMAN; MORALITY; PHYLOGENY; PUNISHMENT; RELIGION; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; AUSTRALASIA; BAYES THEOREM; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CULTURAL EVOLUTION; HUMANS; MORALS; PHYLOGENY; PUNISHMENT; RELIGION;

EID: 84941728687     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.2556     Document Type: Article

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