Have humans always been egalitarian? The evolutionary evidence suggests not.

Blair Fix

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 Man is born free, yet he is everywhere in chains.
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— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 1762  In his epic 18th-century treatise
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 Discourse on Inequality
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, Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued that inequality is an ill of civilization, created by private property. If you roll back the clock on civilization, he claimed, you should also roll back inequality. Rousseau was probably both right and wrong.

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The Deep History of Human Inequality