Comparative Politics - The Namiquara

Cultural evolution could mean going from a simple social structure to a more complex one, like you can't build a car without first having invented wheels and oil extraction and metal smithing. But it could also mean becoming more simple, like going from a stratified agricultural society with hierarchy an specialization, to a more letarian, hunting and gathering society. Any lingering ideas of social complexity equating with progress fell apart when we realized that moving from hunting and gathering to agriculture almost always resulted inGoing down the ladder in terms of quality of life mark nathan cohan found that most societies that adopted agriculture for the first time did so out of desperation. And people's health measures decreased drastically after the transition