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social control hypothesis of ritual human sacrifice: a standalone construct

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the hypothesis that ritual killing helped elites build and keep social stratification, tested with phylogenetic methods across cultures.

In cognitive science of religion, social control hypothesis of ritual human sacrifice refers to the hypothesis that ritual killing helped elites build and keep social stratification, tested with phylogenetic methods across cultures. This meaning comes from Watts (2016) in Nature.[1]

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  1. Watts, J., Sheehan, O., Atkinson, Q. D., Bulbulia, J., & Gray, R. D. (2016). Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified societies. Nature, 532(7598), 228-231. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature17159

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