Hierarchy in the Forest The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior

Name: Hierarchy in the Forest The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior
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ISBN: 9780674006911

ISBN-10: 0674006917

ISBN-13: 9780674006911

Edition: 1999

Authors: Christopher Boehm

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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. 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…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/2/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



The Question of Egalitarian Society


Hierarchy and Equality


Putting Down Aggressors


Equality and Its Causes


A Wider View of Egalitarianism


The Hominoid Political Spectrum


Ancestral Politics


The Evolution of Egalitarian Society


Paleolithic Politics and Natural Selection


Ambivalence and Compromise in Human Nature References


Index