And so I think when you understand that context, there's far more evidence to support the view that modern policing was invented to make sure that that social hierarchy remained intact.

there must first be social elites to exploit it." The study is the latest modern attempt to understand the cultural role played by human sacrifices – rituals in which people were killed in the ...

Low social status adolescents reflect modern times, but high social status ... that the "fine arts" crowd was elevated in the social hierarchy, relative to previous studies. Members of this ...

Indeed, if there’s one characteristic shared by almost every human society, it is inequality: the existence of a social hierarchy. Humans aren’t alone in that. But in an ant society ...

And by mapping the evolutionary relationships between cultures, the team suggests that human sacrifice and social hierarchy co-evolved ... the death penalty in some modern societies isn't to ...

Monkeys and other animals have rules about who does what, too. It's called the social hierarchy. And it has a huge influence on us -- on how we act, whom we spend time with, even where we go and ...

Scott Rudin, one of the producers of the film, said that in spite of its thoroughly modern tag line ... created an alternative social hierarchy, first at Harvard in 2004, then in the ...

Before delving into modern theories and research ... And in a religious social group that hierarchy locates the most powerful member at the very top, and that’s the deity: God.