Conflict and the evolution of social control.

By Christopher Boehm. 2000

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Does a competent leader make a good friend? Conflict, ideology and the psychologies of friendship and followership (2015, background): “However, the benefits of having a dominant leader must be traded off against the associated costs: the increased likelihood that a dominant leader will engage in within-group exploitation (Boehm, 2000).”
The Evolution of Morality (2015, background): “To get to an egalitarian social system, we need a social equilibrium produced either by individuals or groups controlling one another’s selfishness or by members of groups constraining their own selfishness—that is to say, resisting the temptation to dominate subordinates even when it is not in thei”
Evolution and development of boys’ social behavior (2003, background): “…the cost of potentially losing the coalitional support of other boys and men, and thus social and psychological mechanisms that restrict dominance-related differentials between members of the same coalition are predicted to evolve, as cogently argued by Boehm (1993, 2000) (see also Hawley, 1999).”