… or the Yanomamo in the Amazon jungle (Boehm, 1999). Christopher Boehm embarked on a
… analysis, in his 1999 book on the Evolution of Egalitarianism, Boehm had already concluded…

… Human egalitarianism … inequality over human evolution has been described as a U-curve
[1], in which (i) chimp-like dominance hierarchy gave way to (ii) egalitarianism within hunter-…

… Boehm contributes key theoretical concepts such as … dramatically altered the social structure
of the “Forest Troop”. … Christopher Boehm, a cultural anthropologist, provides a detailed …

… frame dominance hierarchies as the product of evolved strategies … the spread of social norms
that favour egalitarian behaviour, … We thank Christopher von Rueden and Adrian Jaeggi for …

… Further, characterizing the hierarchy of complex societies as regression from a supposedly
egalitarian pre-modern golden era uncritically assumes that equality of power is both …

… in support of the argument by Boehm (1999, 2012) that these … that dominance relationships
became strictly egalitarian. Other social … I thank Chris Boehm and Brian Hare for longterm …

… of small-scale societies, along with the absence of the dominance hierarchy that one finds …
Christopher Boehm, in particular, has argued that the egalitarianism in small-scale societies is …

… Politically egalitarian societies were likely more common in pre-history than in recent millenia.
Why did societies become more hierarchical? Answers to this question remain debated, …

… Boehm considered some tribal societies and both ancient and recent populations of gatherers
and hunters to be egalitarian. But … and evolutionary background of dominance hierarchy in …

… by relatively egalitarian sociopolitical structures (Boehm, … hierarchy, and dominance.
These motives reflect the kind of antiegalitarian behaviours that the first key step in the evolution …