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#545 - Chris Von Rueden - How Did Human Leadership Evolve?
Modern Wisdom
Is There a Difference Between Leadership and Politics?
If you don't ever allow dissent in a relatively small group, then people are eventually going to squeeze it so hard that it's going to come out the sides. So yeah, I suppose as well, that would suggest that leadership, which is primarily done through like very heavy dominance is going to be a little bit more fragile. Isn't there something similar to this to do with chimpanzees as well? The chimpanzees can band together and then it doesn't matter how big any one chimp is any three other chimps can pretty much just rip them limb from limb. But what makes humans different is that we are much better able to form really large coalitions often with non-kin and can use
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