Hierarchy in the Forest

Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behaviour. Tracing our contradictory egalitarian and despotic traits to their roots in chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and early human societie [...]
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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 behaviour. Tracing our contradictory egalitarian and despotic traits to their roots in chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and early human societies, Christopher Boehm extends the domain of biological anthropology and evolutionary biology into a new realm: the evolutionary basis of genuine altruism.