I write about political egalitarianism of the type Tocqueville described, specifically about its origins. But it was not Americans, two centuries ago, who invented this interesting political way of life; nor was it the Athenians of ancient Greece. The "democratic" origins I describe are not recent and historical, but evolutionary and ancient. They date from well back in the Paleolithic era, and were intimately involved with the development of human nature itself.
Christopher Boehm
