Hierachy in the forest
Subtitle: the evolution of egalitarian behavior
By: Christopher Boehm.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
Subjects: Human evolution.; Social evolution.; Hunting and gathering societies.; Primates -- Evolution.; Social evolution in animals.; Political anthropology.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-280) and index.