Gender is critical to understanding how egalitarianism works.

Authors

Camilla Power, Morna Finnegan, Jerome Lewis, Ivan Tacey, Ian Watts, Chris Knight

Published in

The Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 49. Pages e440. Oct 02, 2026. Epub Oct 02, 2026.

Abstract

The plural processes underlying egalitarianism should be gendered adequately, with women seen as drivers and innovators from an evolutionary perspective. We apply this across all six processes enumerated by Stibbard Hawkes & von Rueden and advocate ritual as a seventh core process, the engine of reverse dominance.

PMID:
42825729
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 02 Oct 2026.

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