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10.3 The Ingredients of Hierarchy: Graeber & Wengrow’s Dawn of Everything Chapter 3, ”Unfreezing the Ice Age”

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Are We a Galetarian Orgens?

The only way that we could co operate on this level before a wage economy was by volving all sorts of traits that could not likely have emerged in a very hierarchical or competitive society. Traits like involuntary facial expressions that give away our feelings and the co operative eye, which other great apes don't have because they're constantly competing with each other. This means that at least our earliest ancestors were most likely gender galtern as well. Contrary to what bohm says in his work, which focuses on dudes killing each other. There are also a lot of other reasons to believe that we are a galetarian.

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