Climatic instability, food storage, and the development of numerical counting: a cross-cultural study

Article Abstract:

The societies that live in areas of climatic instability in terms of temperature and precipitation extremes tend to have periodic starvation and famine that in turn stimulates them to store and preserve food. The need to store and preserve food during one season for use in another stimulates societies to develop abilities to count to higher numbers in order to estimate the food requirements accurately.

Evaluation, Influence, Climatic changes, Climate change, Food storage

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Modernization as changes in cultural complexity: new cross-cultural measurements

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This article uses a cross-cultural measurement scale to investigate the relationship between modernization, stress, and cultural complexity. Findings indicate that certain aspects of modernization such as changes in trade, education, government, and behavior are associated with significant increases in both cultural complexity and stress.

Social aspects, Statistical Data Included, Stress (Psychology), Social change, Culture diffusion

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Systemic culture patterns as basic units of cultural transmission and evolution

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This article examines the usefulness of identifying systemic culture patterns as discrete units of culture in cross-cultural research. Systemic patterns, such as kinship terminology and phonemic structures, have culturally universal features and can provide insight into the processes of cultural evolution and transmission.

Phonemics, Social evolution, Kinship

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