Human history is also the history of how monkeys will overcome the alpha-male hierarchy after leaving the wild. For 2 hundred thousand years, we responded to such hierarchy with instinct, it was something we couldn’t avoid, escape from or question. But something much bigger than normal evolution happened around 10 thousand years ago and changed everything: we created cities - not just nomad wooden settlements, but stone built sedentary cities. And those cities changed the role of our instinctive hierarchies forever. First, the cities diversified the hierarchy's divisions. From collectors and hunters, we jumped into something much more complex, with several different interdependent activities organized in a completely new set of importance inside the enlarged group. The alpha leader, his females and friends will never leave the top of the hierarchy so far, but the rest of the group will be divided over and over through time, interfering not only in our most basic social instincts,...
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