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Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies

The State of Nature

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Paperback, 288 blz. | Engels
Cambridge University Press | e druk, 2013
ISBN13: 9781107670365
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In this book, Benoît Dubreuil explores the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution. Combining the methods of archaeology, anthropology, cognitive neuroscience and primatology, he offers a natural history of hierarchies from the point of view of both cultural and biological evolution. This volume explains why dominance hierarchies typical of primate societies disappeared in the human lineage and why the emergence of large-scale societies during the Neolithic period implied increased social differentiation, the creation of status hierarchies, and, eventually, political centralisation.

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ISBN13:9781107670365
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:288

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Introduction; 1. A passion for equality?; 2. Reversing dominance hierarchies; 3. Homo sapiens in perspective; 4. Hierarchy without the state; 5. The origins of the state; Conclusion.

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