Hierachy in the forest

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"Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to dominate the strong."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Evolution,  Human evolution,  Hunting and gathering societies,  Political anthropology,  Primates,  Social evolution,  Social evolution in animals,  Primates, evolution