because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Not the anarchists
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orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
“Ed Wilson”
More commonly known as E. O. Wilson in his publications. Highly important scientist. Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Read his book “The Social Conquest of Earth” if this intrigues you.
because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Not the anarchists
My ex would say, “that rules like anarchy.” Cute.
Postulated that humans are eusocial creatures similar to ants, termites, seahorses, and naked mole rats because we follow a hierarchical pecking order.
Source? Eusociality does not involve any sort of ‘hierarchical pecking order’. The requirements are co-operative childcare, overlapping generations and division of labour.
The source is racism: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-complicated-legacy-of-e-o-wilson/
Never meet your heroes, huh?
Lions are eusocial
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Sounds like propaganda tbh
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
pivot_root@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That didn’t work out too well for the French monarchy, did it?
It’s more accurate to say that the average person doesn’t desire a power structure but merely tolerates it. The moment those structures become oppressive, they get violently torn down.
flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Its been pretty oppressive for a while now - c’mon America, wake up…
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Lol, it’s pseudoscientific propaganda. Don’t pretend Wilson isn’t controversial
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 day ago
In what world do people who have more power have it based on biology? You think trump is some biological specimen to get into power? Or is it the societal structure we created that allowed him to rise to power?
The hierarchical structure of humans is some literal right winger shit.
apotheotic@beehaw.org 1 day ago
Not accusing you of anything, just find it funny how “look at it from a purely biological position” is exactly the line transphobes use
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Christ. I forgot that it’s impossible to speak about science online.
sudo_halt@lemmygrad.ml 1 day ago
This is absolute propaganda. Early human societies didn’t work like that. Hunter-gatherers didn’t work like that.
This is yet another “brutal selfish liberalism is hUmAn nAtUrE!!1!1!!1!” shit that was disproven in 1800s.