{"product_id":"hierarchy-in-the-forest-the-evolution-of-egalitarian-behavior-9780674006911","title":"Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior\u003c\/strong\u003e by Boehm. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780674006911.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAre humans by nature hierarchical or egalitarian? Hierarchy in the Forest addresses this question by examining the evolutionary origins of social and political behavior. Christopher Boehm, an anthropologist whose fieldwork has focused on the political arrangements of human and nonhuman primate groups, postulates that egalitarianism is in effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to dominate the strong.\n\nThe political flexibility of our species is formidable: we can be quite egalitarian, we can be quite despotic. Hierarchy in the Forest traces the roots of these contradictory traits in chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and early human societies. Boehm looks at the loose group structures of hunter-gatherers, then at tribal segmentation, and finally at present-day governments to see how these conflicting tendencies are reflected.\n\nHierarchy in the Forest claims new territory for biological anthropology and evolutionary biology by extending the domain of these sciences into a crucial aspect of human political and social behavior. This book will be a key document in the study of the evolutionary basis of genuine altruism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45254476693557,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674006917","price":82.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674006911_1ac2b349-97ee-432a-bd97-3a6bc1399da0.jpg?v=1779960413","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/hierarchy-in-the-forest-the-evolution-of-egalitarian-behavior-9780674006911","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}