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Are Big Gods a big deal in the emergence of big groups?

Attributing False Beliefs About Object Identity Reveals a Signature Blind Spot in Humans’ Efficient Mind-Reading System ⬇️

scientific article published on January 10, 2013

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

scientific article

Can honest signaling theory clarify religion’s role in the evolution of social inequality?

Christianity spread faster in small, politically structured societies

scientific article published on 23 July 2018

Clarity and causality needed in claims about Big Gods

scientific article

Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Cultural macroevolution matters

scientific article

Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

scientific article published on 01 December 2019

Food storage facilitates professional religious specialization in hunter–gatherer societies

scientific article published in 2022

Pulotu: Database of Austronesian Supernatural Beliefs and Practices

scientific article published on 23 September 2015

Religious Rituals Increase Social Bonding and Pain Threshold

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies

scientific article published on 4 April 2016

The Cultural Evolution of Religion: A phylogenetic approach ⬇️

2016 doctoral thesis by Joseph Watts at University of Auckland

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