Supernatural monitoring drove human groups to scale from small bands to vast societies

Evidence

It was these forces of supernatural monitoring and related processes that pushed human groups to rapidly scale up, from hunter-gatherer origins to the vast societies of millions today. — Norenzayan, Ara, Big gods - how religion transformed…, 255

Categorization

• XREF: Core ‘Big God’ mechanism the reader is integrating into the Rodrigues analysis — the perceived omniscient gaze enforcing moral behavior.