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The frequency of domination, violence, and war among humans can count against the idea that humans are ethical beings. In this chapter, I discuss aggression and hierarchy in the context of social animals’ relationships and groups rather than as topics separate from or antithetical to those relationships. In this opening section, I summarize seven key ways that aggression and hierarchy must be contextualized, and then I provide arguments and evidence for this viewpoint in the remainder of the chapter.
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© 2015 Blaine J. Fowers
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Fowers, B.J. (2015). Conflict, Hierarchy, Social Order, and Status. In: The Evolution of Ethics. Palgrave Studies in the Theory and History of Psychology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344663_10
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