Retraction Note: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history

Affiliations

• ¹ Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ² St Benet's Hall, Oxford, UK.
• ³ Centre for the Study of Social Cohesion, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. [email protected].
• ⁴ Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Fujisawa, Japan. [email protected].
• ⁵ Human Behaviour & Cultural Evolution Group, Department of Biosciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK.
• ⁶ School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
• ⁷ Seshat: Global History Databank, Evolution Institute, San Antonio, FL, USA.
• ⁸ ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders and Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, UK.
• ⁹ Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
• ¹⁰ Department of Modern & Classical Language Studies, Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA.
• ¹¹ Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
• ¹² Department of Chinese Language and Culture, Asia-Africa-Institute, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹³ Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA.
• ¹⁵ Complexity Science Hub Vienna, Wien, Austria.