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STATUS: Does Our Need for It Explain ... Everything?

The Next Big Idea

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The Importance of Status in Pre-Modern Groups

Will Grant: We may have persuaded more of our listeners that status is in fact innate. But the last place where my mind might have gone was these examples of egalitarian tribes. And so obviously we are capable as a species of living in more egalitarian ways. However, as it turns out, that takes an enormous amount of policing, right? Or it's not an easy thing to achieve.

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