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This document presents a thermodynamics-inspired model explaining the emergence of egalitarianism in early human societies, contrasting it with dominance hierarchies in non-human primates. The model suggests that the development of language, particularly gossip, enables individuals to form anti-dominance coalitions, leading to a spontaneous transition from hierarchy to egalitarianism as a power-sharing arrangement. The implications of this transition for the origins of moral belief systems and tool adaptati
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