Human Evolution and the Origins of Hierarchies - The State of Nature

Informationen zum Autor Benoît Dubreuil is a postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Philosophy of the Université du Québec à Montréal. His work on moral philosophy and philosophy of science has been published in Biology and Philosophy, Philosophical Explorations, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, and Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Klappentext Beno t Dubreuil offers a naturalist account of the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution. Zusammenfassung Benoît Dubreuil explores the creation and destruction of hierarchies in human evolution. Combining the methods of archaeology, anthropology, cognitive neuroscience and primatology, he offers a natural history of hierarchies from the point of view of both cultural and biological evolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. A passion for equality?; 2. Reversing dominance hierarchies; 3. Homo sapiens in perspective; 4. Hierarchy without the state; 5. The origins of the state; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Benoit Dubreuil, Benoît Dubreuil
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521769488
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76948-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Evolution, prehistory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Archaeology by period / region, Human biology, Prehistoric archaeology