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Humans have likely spent the vast majority of our history as a species in relatively egalitarian, small-scale societies. This does not mean humans are by nature egalitarian. Rather, the ecological… Click to show full abstract
Humans have likely spent the vast majority of our history as a species in relatively egalitarian, small-scale societies. This does not mean humans are by nature egalitarian. Rather, the ecological and demographic conditions common to small-scale societies favored the suppression of steep, dominance-based hierarchy and incentivized relatively shallow, prestige-based hierarchy. Shifts in ecological and demographic conditions, particularly with the spread of agriculture, weakened constraints on coercion.
Keywords:
egalitarianism small;
making unmaking;
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small scale;
unmaking egalitarianism
Journal Title: Current opinion in psychology
Year Published: 2019
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Journal Title: Current opinion in psychology
Year Published: 2019
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