I notice that some anthropologist believe all humans were egalitarian in the past, and others believe inequality was more common they we currently we think with hunter gathers.

This seems to along with anthropologist using modern hunter gathers as way to look at the past which is now considered not a best practice from what I read. Which this influenced the egalitarian hunter gathers idea even more.

  • Nakoichi [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Material conditions determine how we organize more than innate biology.

    • jabrd [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Innate biology was determined by a set of material conditions in subsaharan Africa that we evolved alongside of. The evolutionary psychologists should be out there doing paleontologic work to recreate those conditions. If they weren’t all hacks ofc

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        Evo Psych is a trash tier quack science that is used by STEM nerds to justify sexual violence and hierarchy. I've never seen the field produce any respectable research and I've never met a respectable scientist who had time for Evo Psych.

        Also, the material conditions we evolved in shaped us to incredibly flexible and resilient generalists. We can, and have, adapted to every hostile and marginal environment in the world (except arguably Antarctica) and we've produced a vast diversity of skills, technologies, and societies in the process. The material conditions of our evolution should be understood as providing the framework for diversity and variety rather than a biological straightjacket that determines our behavior.