Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behaviour.(Review)

Arena Magazine | June 1, 2001| | Copyright

Christopher Boehm, Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behaviour, Cambridge (Mass), Harvard University Press, 1999.

On my refrigerator is a postcard from Leeds. The illustration shows a bespectacled intellectual, scratching his chin, explaining: `I suspect that genetically I'm allergic to cleaning and culturally I need to have sex with a lot of people'.

The debate about genetic and cultural influences on human behaviour is a long one, punctuated by conservative claims that poverty and patriarchy are `natural' and unchangeable -- part of ...

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