Modern Wisdom

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

Oct 29, 2022

57:18

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Are You Able to Predict Leadership?

02:47

Are Leaders Acting Selfishly?

02:13

Is There a Skewed Sex Ratio?

02:16

Introduction

5min

Evolutionary Questions About Human Leadership

2min

Are You Big and Powerful?

3min

The Evolution of Human Cooperativeness

3min

Are You Able to Predict Leadership?

3min

Do Dominance Related Traits Contribute to Leadership in Other Animals?

2min

Are Status Hierarchies and Leadership the Same?

4min

The Costs and the Benefits of Fellowship

2min

The Leader-Follower Relationship

3min

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Are Leaders Acting Selfishly?

2min

11.

Is There a Difference Between Leadership and Politics?

2min

12.

Are Leaders Doing Things That Might Be Selfish?

2min

13.

Are There Parallels Between Insects and Humans?

2min

14.

Gerontocracies - Is There a Leader?

3min

15.

The Relationship Between Ecology and Leadership

3min

16.

Defensible Resources Are Important in Coercive Leadership

2min

17.

More Defensible Resources Increase Inequality

2min

18.

Leadership in the Modern World - Is There a Crossover?

2min

19.

Are Leaders Altruistic or Selfish?

2min

20.

Is There a Relationship Between Status and Mating Success?

2min

21.

Is There a Relationship Between Female Status and Reproductive Success?

2min

22.

Is There a Difference in Mating Success When Status Is Taken From Dominance?

3min

23.

Is There a Skewed Sex Ratio?

2min

24.

Chris Von Ruden, I Love That Insight

2min

Chris von Rueden is an anthropologist and Associate Professor at the University of Richmond who researches how humans form status hierarchies and the evolution of human cooperation.

We take it for granted that there are leaders in modern society. Presidents, prime ministers, kings and queens. Hierarchies are baked into our world, but what did leadership look like in an ancestral environment and why did it evolve in the first place?

Expect to learn the two ways that primitive leaders could command respect from a group, why followership evolved at all in humans, why the Female Leadership Paradox exists, how leadership and hierarchies change as group size increases, whether leaders are altruistic or selfish and much more...

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