Sunday, February 20, 2011: 9:30 AM
102B (Washington Convention Center )
In this paper, I draw on my own previous work on the formation and maintenance of large-group cooperation in the context of war and on the processes of political centralization to sketch what such a unified theory might look like. In the process, I identify several important factors that generate increasing scale and centralization as human societies evolved from small-scale egalitarian bands to vast, industrial, politically centralized states.
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