http://anthropology.net/2008/10/09/modeling-the-egalitarian-revolution/ Beyond bones & stones Wed, 30 May 2012 15:52:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://anthropology.net/2008/10/09/modeling-the-egalitarian-revolution/#comment-12730 Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:05:48 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=1517#comment-12730 [...] Modeling the Egalitarian Revolution The dynamics of alliance formation and how that helped break down rigid hierarchical social systems [...]

]]> http://anthropology.net/2008/10/09/modeling-the-egalitarian-revolution/#comment-12692 Sun, 12 Oct 2008 22:37:27 +0000 http://anthropologynet.wordpress.com/?p=1517#comment-12692 Reminds me of “Demonic Males”, which I reviewed here. Wrangham attributes the social difference between gorillas and our closer relatives, the chimpanzees, to their feeding patterns. He also thinks humans diverged from chimpanzees because we were forced to feed on roots rather than fruit. His focus is more on gender-egalitarianism, a metric by which the first world ranks higher than hunter gatherers.

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