Hierarchy in the Forest : : The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior / / Christopher Boehm.
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 group...
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Boehm, Christopher, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Hierarchy in the Forest : The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior / Christopher Boehm. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009] ©2001 1 online resource (304 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 The Question of Egalitarian Society -- 2 Hierarchy and Equality -- 3 Putting Down Aggressors -- 4 Equality and Its Causes -- 5 A Wider View of Egalitarianism -- 6 The Hominoid Political Spectrum -- 7 Ancestral Politics -- 8 The Evolution of Egalitarian Society -- 9 Paleolithic Politics and Natural Selection -- 10 Ambivalence and Compromise in Human Nature -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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.The political flexibility of our species is formidable: we can be quite egalitarian, we can be quite despotic. Hierarchy in the Forest traces the roots of these contradictory traits in chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and early human societies. Boehm looks at the loose group structures of hunter-gatherers, then at tribal segmentation, and finally at present-day governments to see how these conflicting tendencies are reflected.Hierarchy in the Forest claims new territory for biological anthropology and evolutionary biology by extending the domain of these sciences into a crucial aspect of human political and social behavior. This book will be a key document in the study of the evolutionary basis of genuine altruism. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jul 2024) SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution. bisacsh https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674028449?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674028449 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674028449/original |
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