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

WHAT IS POLITICS?

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Dominance Hiarke

The only thing that we can reasonably infer about social organization among our earliest ancestors is that it's likely to have been extraordinarily diverse. Early humans inhabited a wide range of natural environments, from coast lands and tropical forests to mountains and savanna. And presumably their social differences were even greater than their physical ones. In other words, there is no original form of human society.

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