Cross-cultural forager myth transmission rules: Implications for the emergence of cumulative culture
Evolution and Human Behavior • Vol/Iss. N/A • Elsevier • • Published In • Pages: ??•
By Scalise Sugiyama, Michelle, Reilly, Kieran J.
Hypothesis
Myth-telling rules will mandate transmission with measures to prevent, identify, and correct mistakes.
Note
An example of this is the documentation of audience correcting the narrator.
Test Name | Support | Significance | Coefficient | Tail |
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Percentage comparisons | Supported | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN |
Variable Name | Variable Type | OCM Term(s) |
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Presence of measures against mistakes | Dependent | Traditional History, Literature, Literary Texts, Texts |