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

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Is There a Relationship Between Status and Mating Success?

In hunter-gatherer societies, more status is probably good for mating success. Nick Clegg was the former co prime minister of the UK and now he's a Facebook spokesman. It just suggests that there are motivations for gaining influence in any human society,. And any in a society, no matter how egalitarian, there is hierarchy which produces these reproductive variation.

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