The emergence of egalitarianism in a model of early human societies
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DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00451
Abstract: How did egalitarianism emerge in early human societies? In contrast to dominance hierarchies in non-human primates, human simple forager bands are typically egalitarian, with male hunters often serving as the collective alpha. Here we present… read more here.
Keywords: human societies; egalitarianism; early human; egalitarianism model ... See more keywords
Doing palaeo-social volcanology: Developing a framework for systematically investigating the impacts of past volcanic eruptions on human societies using archaeological datasets
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DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2018.01.027
Abstract: Abstract Over geological and cultural evolutionary timescales, volcanic eruptions are relatively frequent events. In some parts of the world they are common and usually small in scale, and past human communities have been repeatedly exposed… read more here.
Keywords: human societies; volcanic eruptions; social volcanology; past volcanic ... See more keywords
Catastrophic climate change and the collapse of human societies
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DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwad082
Abstract: Thescientific community has focused the agenda of studies of climate change on lower-end warming and simple risk analyses, because more realistic complex assessments of risk are more difficult, the benchmark of the international targets is… read more here.
Keywords: human societies; collapse; climate change; climate ... See more keywords