@article {315590,
	title = {Zoon Politikon: The Evolution of Human Socio-Political Systems},
	journal = {Behavioural Processes},
	volume = {161},
	year = {2019},
	month = {04/2019},
	pages = {17-30},
	chapter = {17},
	abstract = {<p><span style="font-family: NexusSans, Arial, Helvetica, \&quot;Lucida Sans Unicode\&quot;, \&quot;Microsoft Sans Serif\&quot;, \&quot;Segoe UI Symbol\&quot;, STIXGeneral, \&quot;Cambria Math\&quot;, \&quot;Arial Unicode MS\&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">We deploy the most up-to-date evidence available in various behavioral fields in support of the following hypothesis: The emergence of bipedalism and cooperative breeding in the hominin line, together with environmental developments that made a diet of meat from large animals adaptive, as well as cultural innovations in the form of fire, cooking, and lethal weapons, created a niche for hominins in which there was a significant advantage to individuals with the ability to communicate and persuade in a moral context. These forces added a unique political dimension to human social life which, through gene-culture coevolution, became Homo ludens{\textemdash}Man, the game player{\textemdash}with the power to conserve and transform the social order. Homo sapiens became, in the words of Aristotle{\textquoteright}s Nicomachean Ethics, a zoon politikon.</span></p>
},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0376635717303698?via\%3Dihub},
	author = {Gintis, H and Van Schaik, C and Boehm, C}
}
