The communal democracy is shown to be significantly and negatively correlated with the family size. The correlation between these two variables cannot be completely explained by the fact that both of them have a similar curvilinear relationship with cultural complexity (measured here by the number of supracommunal levels and the community/settlement size). Hence, family size has some independent influence on communal democracy.
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