Contents

  1 The Question of Egalitarian Society

  2 Hierarchy and Equality

  3 Putting Down Aggressors

  4 Equality and Its Causes

  5 A Wider View of Egalitarianism

  6 The Hominoid Political Spectrum

  7 Ancestral Politics

  8 The Evolution of Egalitarian Society

  9 Paleolithic Politics and Natural Selection

10 Ambivalence and Compromise in Human Nature

References

Index