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The problem was, first, an enormous political discrepancy...

Submitted by Ken Watts on Mon, 07/20/2009 - 17:02

The problem was, first, an enormous political discrepancy between the despotic ancestors of our human lineage and the egalitarian foragers in whose bands our genes were evolved, and, second, the equally large discrepancy between those same egalitarians and the despotic human societies that followed them after the Neolithic.

Christopher Boehm