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Yeah, because authority isn't natural in animals, primates included, and people never accumulate more than others in basic economies, and never use power or inf

• solve 11y ago
  Sometimes I wish HN used these nonsense stories as a gullibility test. Revoke the upvote powers of anyone who upvotes this pure nonsense.
  • duaneb 11y ago
    Your degree in anthropology blesses us all with your judgment—here I was thinking I might not understand the underlying research correctly. This community is the best!
• bcoates 11y ago
  Projecting human social structures onto animal interactions almost always results in wrong conclusions about both.
  • overcast 11y ago
    Humans are animals.
    • duaneb 11y ago
      ...for all definitions of animals that don't exclude humans, yes. Humans have unique characteristics that are central here, like effective use of abstract language, social stratification, and socially managed resources.