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#545 - Chris Von Rueden - How Did Human Leadership Evolve?

Modern Wisdom

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The Relationship Between Ecology and Leadership

The more defensible the resources, the more polygyny you see. The more intense the gerontocracy. So why leadership at all? It's just helped solve coordination and collective action problems. And so if you're in a ecology with lots of plentiful resources that enables populations to grow,. You can get more conflicts, more coordination, failure, more free riding.

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