What do other species evolutionary tracks have to do with ours? Legs have evolved in a wide variety of species, but many species don’t have them, including some like snakes and whales that have ancestors with legs. These species were formed by evolutionary pressures that made that trait detrimental. Above is a summary of how tyranny is detrimental in a nomadic hunter gatherer society.
Along with the disadvantages one of the key advantages of tyranny, intra group conflict resolution, is less of a draw as we have other ways of resolving conflicts, namely speech which no other species has to the same degree. Resolving conflicts with talking is way less costly to the group then resolving with violence, so a tribe that resolves there conflicts with words is going to be in better shape then one constantly fighting and injuring each other.
The sharing of food and material goods does not imply a lack of tyrannical behavior.
What is this tyrannical behavior then, and what’s it in service of? Tyranny takes a lot of effort and risk to maintain, so why do it? Your not getting more resources, your not getting prestige through displays of authority.
What do other species evolutionary tracks have to do with ours? Legs have evolved in a wide variety of species, but many species don’t have them, including some like snakes and whales that have ancestors with legs. These species were formed by evolutionary pressures that made that trait detrimental. Above is a summary of how tyranny is detrimental in a nomadic hunter gatherer society.
Along with the disadvantages one of the key advantages of tyranny, intra group conflict resolution, is less of a draw as we have other ways of resolving conflicts, namely speech which no other species has to the same degree. Resolving conflicts with talking is way less costly to the group then resolving with violence, so a tribe that resolves there conflicts with words is going to be in better shape then one constantly fighting and injuring each other.
What is this tyrannical behavior then, and what’s it in service of? Tyranny takes a lot of effort and risk to maintain, so why do it? Your not getting more resources, your not getting prestige through displays of authority.
Your not going to get a harem, polygyny was rare in Hunter gatherer civilizations and even the guys with multiple wives usually only had 2 wives. . Extreme polygyny and harems don’t show up until agriculture as shown by the bottleneck in y chromosomes
So please provide some sort of ethnographic case study showing this tribal tyranny you speak of.