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> (Peacocks signal with their tails that they are healthy and strong, even though they have no society they live in, so no inequality and class struggles). And
by aalleavitch 7y ago
> (Peacocks signal with their tails that they are healthy and strong, even though they have no society they live in, so no inequality and class struggles).
And yet many animals have very little sexual dimorphism and exhibit very little sexual competition or selectiveness, so it would clearly seem to be a result of their evolutionary niche or environmental factors that lead to one behavior or the other. The most common example being the differences in form/behavior between the chimpanzee and the bonobo. The difference being that the bonobos live in relative abundance because they are not subject to competition with the gorillas. Likewise if humans did not face the intense artificial scarcity imposed upon us by strict social hierarchy and economic inequality, we might see our society shape itself much more like bonobos than chimpanzees.