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10.4 What Causes Seasonal Social and Political Structures? The Dawn of Everything Chapter 3:

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Social Evolutionist Definition of the State

The author says seasonal dualism throws into chaos the idea of an evolution from band to trive to chief. Social evolutionists and anthropologists are always trying to come up with a better definition of the state, he adds. The authors seem to just want throw away all the categories and lie on the carpet shrooming about the oneness of everything, writes David Frum.

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