Testing the big gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and ‘retake’

This ‘Retake’ article presents a corrected and extended version of a Letter published in Nature (Whitehouse et al., 2019) which set out to test the Big Gods hypothesis proposing that beliefs in moralizing punitive deities drove the evolution of sociopolitical complexity in world history. The Letter...

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Main Authors: Whitehouse, H, Francois, P, Savage, P, Turchin, P
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Taylor and Francis 2022