Relationship Between Self‐Reported Storytelling Ability and Reproductive Success Among Three Non‐Western Populations in Nigeria, Pakistan, and Papua

Key Points

• The research aims to explore how storytelling ability relates to reproductive success in varied cultural settings.
• Compared self-reported storytelling abilities across three non-Western populations.
• Analyzed the link between storytelling ability and parenthood likelihood.
• Investigated differences among egalitarian and hierarchical societies.
• Storytelling ability is more strongly associated with the likelihood of parenthood than with completed fertility.
• The relationship varies significantly between egalitarian and hierarchical social structures.