Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior

by Christopher Boehm

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674006917
• ISBN13: 9780674006911
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"