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Democracy, dictatorship, and polygamy.

Publication: Regulation
Publication Date: 22-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Democracy, dictatorship, and polygamy.(BRIEFLY NOTED)

Article Excerpt
Some human societies are democratic; some are dictatorial. Therefore, our evolutionary background must be consistent with either form of government. Can this background tell us something about the basic structure of political power in a society?

It might appear that human societies are naturally hierarchical because most of history records monarchies or other forms of dictatorial governments. But this observation may be deceptive. "History" has only existed since the origin of writing and it records events that occurred after human societies became sedentary and agricultural. This has been the case for the past 5,000-10,000 years. For most of our existence as humans and all of our existence as pre-humans, societies were very different. We must look further back than the historical record.

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