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Paleolithic Social Structure

Paleolithic Social Structure. Dr. Green. Interactions and Social Size. Solutions. Hierarchy Other apes Networks Paleolithic humans. Clique. Biology and Social Group Size. High brain-to-body mass ratio is related by the size and complexity of their social groups

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Paleolithic Social Structure

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  1. Paleolithic Social Structure Dr. Green

  2. Interactions and Social Size

  3. Solutions • Hierarchy • Other apes • Networks • Paleolithic humans

  4. Clique

  5. Biology and Social Group Size • High brain-to-body mass ratio is related by the size and complexity of their social groups • Human brain-to-body mass ratio is large

  6. Capuchin Monkeys They have the highest brain-to-body-size ratio of any primate other than people

  7. Capuchin Monkeys • Highly social • Surrogate parenting • Social traditions • Innovative • Learned • Parochial • Transient • Flexible • Testing social relation—fingers in the nose

  8. Humans • Shift from Australopithecines to Homo • Increased sociality • Probably stone tools • Probably the first hunting • Sharing is a risk management strategy • Diversification • Increases the odds of a successful hunt • Coevolution of biology and egalitarianism

  9. Egalitarianism • Sharing, cooperation, consensus • Low sexual dimorphism- shared parenting • Fluidity of the microband • Fission-fusion structure • Networks • Lack of fixed power structure • Mutual suppport for others

  10. Tribalism • Core social group=150 • 11175 interactions • Intimate group=12 • 66 interactions

  11. Egalitarianism • Belonging to a group • Freedom • Treated as a person

  12. Hierarchy • Developed highly in civilization • Hierarchy breaks down in hunting • Humans returns to egalitarianism when hierarchy breaks down • New Orleans • Hippies • Gangs

  13. The Social Contract • This is what the State founds itself on. Precisely this kind of scenario. “Obey us, serve us, and we will protect you in times of catastrophe”; that is the social contract, that is the Faustian deal we strike with Leviathan. It is for that, that we sell ourselves to oppressors and tyrants, and shackle our lives, our futures, our souls to the will of the State. All we have asked in return is its protection from catastrophe. Now catastrophe has come, and the protection of the State is nowhere to be found--Jason Godesky

  14. Relationships • Either both parties to the interaction are living or one is not • One is not in saprotropism in which an organism lives off of the dead • Both are living in • Antagonism in which one or both is/are harmed • Symbiosis in which one or both is/are helped • Neutralism in which neither is benefited nor harmed

  15. Antagonisms • Parasitism • one type of organism is benefited and other is harmed • Suitors • Exploitation • one organism enslaves the other organism • Circe and Calypso • Predation • one organism catches and kills the other type of organism and take it as food • Cyclopes and Laestrygonians • Ammensalism or antibiosis • A by-product of one organism's activities harms the another, but no nutrition takes place • Sirens • Competition • two organisms when living in a specific ecosystem compete with each other for food and shelter • War

  16. Symbiosis • Commensalism (hospitality) • One organism may be benefited • The other may remain neutral • No one is harmed • Mutualism (communities, such as families) • Both individuals are benefited by each other • Both are interdependent • Protocooperation (contracts) • Both the individuals are benefited by each other • They can also live independently

  17. Neutralism • Two or more organisms live together • Neither is benefited nor harmed • Strangers

  18. Relationships • With gods • With humans • With sub-humans • Savages • With non-humans • Outside all relationships

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