Parasites and politics: why cross-cultural studies must control for relatedness, proximity and covariation

A growing number of studies seek to identify predictors of broad-scale patterns in human cultural diversity, but three sources of non-independence in human cultural variables can bias the results of cross-cultural studies. First, related cultures tend to have many traits in common, regardless of whe...

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Main Authors: Lindell Bromham, Xia Hua, Marcel Cardillo, Hilde Schneemann, Simon J. Greenhill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2018-01-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.181100