Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis,suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture
Our prehistoric forebears are often portrayed as spear-wielding savages, but the earliest human societies are likely to maintain been founded on enlightened egalitarian principles, and according to scientists.
A study has shown that in contemporary hunter-gatherer tribes,men and women tend to maintain equal influence on where their group lives and who they live with. The findings challenge the view that sexual equality is a recent invention, suggesting that it has been the norm for humans for most of our evolutionary history.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com