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The emergence of egalitarianism in a model of early human societies

How did egalitarianism emerge in early human societies? In contrast to dominance hierarchies in non-human primates, human simple forager bands are typically egalitarian, with male hunters often serving as the collective alpha. Here we present a thermodynamics-inspired simple population model, based...

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Autores principales: Calmettes, Guillaume, Weiss, James N.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727548/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29264410
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2017.e00451