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Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies: The State of Nature

Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies: The State of Nature

Hardcover

ArchaeologyEvolution

ISBN10: 0521769485
ISBN13: 9780521769488
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 6 2010
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this book, Benoît Dubreuil explores the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution. Combining the methods of archeology, 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 implied increased social differentiation, the creation of status hierarchies, and, eventually, political centralization.

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