Dominance, prestige, and the role of leveling in human social hierarchy and equality

JT Cheng - Current opinion in psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Social rank in humans derives from the capacity to inflict costs (dominance) or the
capacity to benefit others (prestige).•Evidence indicates that social rank accrues to …

The evolution of inequality

SM Mattison, EA Smith, MK Shenk… - … : Issues, News, and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how systems of political and economic inequality evolved from relatively
egalitarian origins has long been a focus of anthropological inquiry. Many hypotheses have …

[BUCH][B] The lifeways of hunter-gatherers: the foraging spectrum

RL Kelly - 2013 - books.google.com
In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were
Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes …

How universal is the Big Five? Testing the five-factor model of personality variation among forager–farmers in the Bolivian Amazon.

M Gurven, C Von Rueden, M Massenkoff… - Journal of personality …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
The five-factor model (FFM) of personality variation has been replicated across a range of
human societies, suggesting the FFM is a human universal. However, most studies of the …

A mutualistic approach to morality: The evolution of fairness by partner choice

N Baumard, JB André, D Sperber - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2013 - cambridge.org
What makes humans moral beings? This question can be understood either as a proximate
“how” question or as an ultimate “why” question. The “how” question is about the mental and …

Descent, marriage, and residence practices of a 3,800-year-old pastoral community in Central Eurasia

J Blöcher, M Brami, IS Feinauer… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Our understanding of prehistoric societal organization at the family level is still limited. Here,
we generated genome data from 32 individuals from an approximately 3,800-y-old burial …

[ZITATION][C] Cognitive adaptations for social exchange

L Cosmides - 1992 - books.google.com
Cognitive adaptations for social exchange Page 176 3 Cognitive Adaptations for Social
Exchange LEDA COSMIDES AND JOHN TOOBY INTRODUCTION Is it not reasonable to …

Men's status and reproductive success in 33 nonindustrial societies: Effects of subsistence, marriage system, and reproductive strategy

CR Von Rueden, AV Jaeggi - Proceedings of the National …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Social status motivates much of human behavior. However, status may have been a
relatively weak target of selection for much of human evolution if ancestral foragers tended …

[BUCH][B] Hierarchy in the forest: The evolution of egalitarian behavior

C Boehm, C Boehm - 2009 - books.google.com
Are humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this
question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher …

Egalitarian societies

J Woodburn - Man, 1982 - JSTOR
Greater equality of wealth, of power and of prestige has been achieved in certain hunting
and gathering societies than in any other human societies. These societies, which have …