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.
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"...coercion and the evidence for this is that well guess what? Gorillas do this right if you study gorillas, you will see that they..."
"...penises. In fact, the largest penises of all primates. Okay? So gorillas are much bigger than we are. We have bigger penises. Why? Because..."
"...had multiple sexual partners. And one piece of evidence is this. Gorillas, right? They're the biggest primates. They're huge, right? Well, it turns out..."
"...Primates that we look at very closely Okay, the first is gorillas. We also look at chimpanzees and we look at banal bulls. Okay..."
"...All right, okay so coercion While it is true that with gorillas, there's an alpha male Who controls everything? The problem is that if..."
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