Eva Brandl

TL;DR: A database of historical and archaeological information from 30 regions around the world over the last 10,000 years revealed that characteristics, such as social scale, economy, features of governance, and information systems, show strong evolutionary relationships with each other and that complexity of a society across different world regions can be meaningfully measured using a single principal component of variation.

TL;DR: By examining the ultimate explanations of behaviour related to pandemic-management (such as behavioural compliance and social distancing), it is concluded that “good of the group” arguments and “one size fits all” policies are unlikely to encourage behaviour change over the long-term.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors empirically tested the Big Gods Hypothesis which proposes that beliefs in moralizing supernatural punishment (MSP) contributed to the evolution of socio-political complexity (SPC) in world history.

TL;DR: The suggestion that polity population divided by polity area should be one of the social complexity dimensions raises a number of issues, including what does this ratio mean at large spatial scales?

TL;DR: This paper found that up to age 8, most participants taught through a participatory approach, emphasizing learning-by-doing, demonstrations, and short commands (57.1% of children aged 4-6 and 57.9% of older children aged 7-8), suggesting that the ontogeny of teaching is shaped by the socio-cultural environment.