ORCID
- Ivan Tacey: 0000-0001-9659-1359
Document Type
Article
Abstract
The plural processes underlying egalitarianism should be gendered adequately, with women seen as drivers and innovators from an evolutionary perspective. We apply this across all six processes enumerated by Stibbard Hawkes & von Rueden and advocate ritual as a seventh core process, the engine of reverse dominance.
DOI Link
Publication Date
2026-10-02
Publication Title
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Volume
49
ISSN
0140-525X
Deposit Date
2026-11-02
Funding
Ivan Tacey’s research for this paper was supported by a dissertation fieldwork grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (Grant No. 8551, 2012–2013) and a postdoctoral research grant from the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation (2020).
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First Page
440
Last Page
440
Recommended Citation
Tacey, I., Power, C., Lewis, J., Watts, I., Knight, C., & Finnegan, M. (2026) 'Gender is critical to understanding how egalitarianism works', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 49, pp. 440-440. Available at: 10.1017/S0140525X2610586X
