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.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    no we are complex creatures not ants or some shit

    even dogs change their nature based on material conditions. the only constant is that we are social creatures that get a natural drug rush from touching each other

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I get your point but stepping in to defend ants here, ants are social insects with complex behaviors

      shout out to leafcutter ants that do fungiculture

      • kristina [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        yeah thats true. still, one ant is just part of a larger whole. basically the entire hill is a big machine. sometimes they can be adaptable but a lot of them are hardcoded to their natural environment and just straight up die elsewhere