How competition drove social complexity: the role of war in the emergence of States, both ancient and modern

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Autor(a) principal: CRESPO,EDUARDO ALBERTO
Data de Publicação: 2020
Outros Autores: APPEL,TIAGO NASSER
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista de Economia Política
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Resumo: ABSTRACT The origin of human ultrasociality - the ability to cooperate in huge groups of genetically unrelated individuals - has long interested evolutionary and social theorists. In this article, we use cultural group or multilevel selection theory to explain how cultural traits needed to sustain large-scale complex societies necessarily arose as a result of competition among cultural groups. We apply the theory at two key particular junctures: (i) the emergence of the first States and hierarchical societies, and (ii) the Rise of Modern Nation-States and the associated Great Divergence in incomes between the West and the “Rest” that began in the eighteenth century.
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title How competition drove social complexity: the role of war in the emergence of States, both ancient and modern
spellingShingle How competition drove social complexity: the role of war in the emergence of States, both ancient and modern
CRESPO,EDUARDO ALBERTO
Cultural evolution
war
social complexity
States
great divergence
title_short How competition drove social complexity: the role of war in the emergence of States, both ancient and modern
title_full How competition drove social complexity: the role of war in the emergence of States, both ancient and modern
title_fullStr How competition drove social complexity: the role of war in the emergence of States, both ancient and modern
title_full_unstemmed How competition drove social complexity: the role of war in the emergence of States, both ancient and modern
title_sort How competition drove social complexity: the role of war in the emergence of States, both ancient and modern
author CRESPO,EDUARDO ALBERTO
author_facet CRESPO,EDUARDO ALBERTO
APPEL,TIAGO NASSER
author_role author
author2 APPEL,TIAGO NASSER
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv CRESPO,EDUARDO ALBERTO
APPEL,TIAGO NASSER
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Cultural evolution
war
social complexity
States
great divergence
topic Cultural evolution
war
social complexity
States
great divergence
description ABSTRACT The origin of human ultrasociality - the ability to cooperate in huge groups of genetically unrelated individuals - has long interested evolutionary and social theorists. In this article, we use cultural group or multilevel selection theory to explain how cultural traits needed to sustain large-scale complex societies necessarily arose as a result of competition among cultural groups. We apply the theory at two key particular junctures: (i) the emergence of the first States and hierarchical societies, and (ii) the Rise of Modern Nation-States and the associated Great Divergence in incomes between the West and the “Rest” that began in the eighteenth century.
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