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Russell D Gray - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Pathways to Social Inequality
2019Co-Authors: Hannah J. Haynie, Russell D Gray, Patrick H. Kavanagh, Fiona M. Jordan, Carol R. Ember, Simon J. Greenhill, Kathryn R. Kirby, Geoff Kushnick, Bobbi S. Low, Ty TuffAbstract:Social Inequality is now pervasive in human societies, despite the fact that humans lived in relatively egalitarian, small-scale societies across most of our history. Prior literature highlights the importance of environmental conditions, economic defensibility, and wealth transmission for shaping early Holocene origins of Social Inequality. However, it remains untested whether the mechanisms that drive the evolution of Inequality in recent human societies follow a similar trajectory. We conduct the first global analysis of pathways to Inequality within modern human societies using structural equation modeling. Our analytical approach demonstrates that environmental conditions, resource intensification, and wealth transmission mechanisms impact various forms of Social Inequality via a complex web of causality. We further find that subsistence practices have a direct impact on some institutionalized forms of Inequality. This work identifies drivers of Social Inequality in the modern world and demonstrates the application of structural equation modeling methods to investigate complex relationships between elements of human culture.
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
Joseph Bulbina - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
Gloria Fraser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
John H Shaver - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
Joseph Watts - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
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can honest signaling theory clarify religion s role in the evolution of Social Inequality
Religion brain and behavior, 2017Co-Authors: Joseph Bulbina, Gloria Fraser, Joseph Watts, John H Shaver, Russell D GrayAbstract:ABSTRACTVivid coloration, pungent odors, strident alarms, and crippling stings have co-evolved in many lineages as mechanisms that conspicuously identify menacing creatures. Biologists call this mode of communication aposematic signaling, from the Greek apo “away” and sema “sign.” Despite the prevalence of aposematic signaling across a broad range of biological taxa, its scope and role in human cultural evolution remains unclear. Evidence from a large database of Pacific cultures (Pulotu: https://pulotu.econ.mpg.de/) reveals that ritualized human sacrifice co-evolved with Social stratification to extend and stabilize Social Inequality. We hypothesize that the practice of ritual killing illustrates aposematic signaling in human cultural evolution: (1) killing honestly displayed the power of Social elites to harm people; (2) ritual-mythological settings displace culpability for ritual killing from elites to the gods. Aposematic signaling makes sense of otherwise puzzling practices of ritual killing in the e...
