Was there a prehistoric trend from smaller to larger political units?

Increase in size of areas controlled by any single political unit has been accelerating with respect to time (300)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Regression	Supported	Not Applicable	`UNKNOWN`	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Political Development	Dependent	Territorial Organization
Technological Development	Dependent	Tools And Appliances, Production And Supply
Time	Independent	Ordering Of Time

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Carneiro, Robert L.	1968	"The degree of regularity in the relative order of development of any two traits is directly proportional to the evolutionary distance between them" (363)	Supported	15	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1963	"In sum, the results of this study clearly show that economic and political development are functionally related in nonindustrialized societies" (240)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Ember, Melvin	1963	"If we plot the distribution of these scores, we find that the relationship between the two variables [economic and political development] is not linear. Rather, the relationship curves increasingly upward" (243-244)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Hart, Hornell	1944	"[There is] a high positive correlation between technological and political development among primitive peoples [political complexity an indirect measure of geographical area controlled by a society]" (289)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Osafo-Kwaako, Philip	2013	Political centralization predicts increases in public goods and development outcomes.	Supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author