“EARLY MEN AND WOMEN WERE EQUAL, SAY SCIENTISTS” (May 15, 2015)

Thus The Guardian today. “Study shows that modern hunter-gatherer tribes operate on egalitarian basis, suggesting inequality was an aberration that came with the advent of agriculture,” explains the newspaper. The study in question involves anthropologists from the University College London. Mark Dyble, who led the team, puts it quite clearly: “There is still this wider perception that hunter-gatherers are more macho or male-dominated. We’d argue it was only with the emergence of agriculture, when people could start to accumulate resources, that inequality emerged.” Lovely, this. One more argument against so-called progress, agriculture included. And one more argument for posthistory that beckons from the bright future. A prophet of boon, I cannot but rejoice at any support of my vision, which can be found in my book on climate change and what is to be done about it. As I have argued over and over again, tribal life is the only social context that fits humans at this stage of their evolution. Men and women finally reunited!