Intensification of agriculture and social hierarchies evolve together study finds https://www.mpg.de/11980476/intensification-of-agriculture-and-social-hierarchies-evolve-together-study-finds
A joint project between the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History and the University of Auckland analyzed the evolution of 155 Island South East Asian and Pacific societies to determine that, rather than intensification of agriculture leading to social stratification, the two evolve together. The study, published in PNAS, illustrates the way social and material factors combine to drive human cultural evolution.
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