Division of Labor, Economic Specialization, and the Evolution of Social Stratification

By Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd. Current Anthropology, 2008

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Culture and social behavior (2015, methodology): “This powerful tool has already been deployed to understand the emergence of a wide range of social norms and institutions, including those related to social stratification [65], ethnic groups [66], cultures of honor [67], signaling systems [68], punishment [69–71] and various reputational systems [7”
Tribal Social Instincts and the Cultural Evolution of Institutions to Solve Collective Action Problems (2012, unknown): “Cliodynamics 3: 38–80.”
The Emergence and Persistence of Inequality in Premodern Societies (2010, background): “…Shennan 2008), warfare (Rowthorn and Seabright 2008; Spencer 2002; Webster 1975), or developments that permit a more complex division of labor (Henrich and Boyd 2008; Smith and Choi 2007), and others attribute a decisive role to ideological and cultural factors such as a growing concentration…”