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Coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy

Published:2018-03-19 Issue:14 Volume:115 Page:3628-3633
ISSN:0027-8424
Container-title:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
language:en
Short-container-title:Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

Author:

Sheehan Oliver¹²,Watts Joseph²³^ORCID,Gray Russell D.¹²,Atkinson Quentin D.¹²

Affiliation:

1. School of Psychology, University of Auckland, 1142 Auckland, New Zealand;

2. Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, 07743 Jena, Germany;

3. Social and Evolutionary Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PH, United Kingdom

Abstract

Significance Over the past 10,000 years, human societies have grown vastly more complex. How and why this occurred is still debated. One major point of contention is the relationship between two characteristic features of complex societies: intensive resource use and sociopolitical hierarchy. The “materialist” view is that intensification drives hierarchy, but the reverse view and intermediate views have also been proposed. Here we report the results of a phylogenetic study on the coevolution of landesque capital intensive agriculture and sociopolitical hierarchy in the Austronesian-speaking world. We find support for a reciprocal coevolutionary relationship between the two variables, challenging the materialist view and highlighting the importance of social as well as material factors as drivers of cultural evolution.

Publisher

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Link

https://pnas.org/doi/pdf/10.1073/pnas.1714558115

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