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Jiang presents coercion as the theory that an elite group that did not want to work forced everyone else into agricultural labor, with gorilla alpha-male hierarchy as supporting primate evidence.
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Jiang presents coercion as the theory that an elite group that did not want to work forced everyone else into agricultural labor, with gorilla alpha-male hierarchy as supporting primate evidence.
Jiang presents war as the theory that farming and settlement made defense easier, with chimpanzee violence as supporting primate evidence.
Jiang presents respect for elders as the theory that humans were biologically or culturally disposed to protect old people, making settlement attractive because hunter-gatherer life was hard on elders.
"We can only guess about what happened so the first theory is the idea of coercion Okay, and what this basically means is that..."
"You can see the enemy coming. Okay, so War the evidence for this is that Chimpanzees, okay again who are like us They go..."
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