Radical Anthropology<p>This diagram depicts the complete <a href="https://c.im/tags/revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>revolution</span></a> in <a href="https://c.im/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>human</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/social" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>social</span></a> organisation. <a href="https://c.im/tags/Baboon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Baboon</span></a> sexes virtually overlap (males map onto where females make a living). By total contrast, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hadza" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hadza</span></a> women forage in their space and send men all over the landscape to fetch stuff for them and the kids!</p><p>That my friends is the Human Revolution in action! <br />Every day, Hadza way. The most memorable lecture I took part in my whole working life at Uni of East London was together with a couple of Hadza guys teaching on the 2nd year &#39;Origins of culture&#39; course. They took us through the extraordinary article by Marshall Sahlins from 1960 on &#39;Origins of Society&#39;. Sahlins used some quite dodgy data to compare baboon behaviours with human hunter-gatherers. My Hadza friends Athumani and Abeli of course had much greater knowledge of baboons! They had plenty to say (in KiSwahili, I translated for the class) on similarities and differences. There are significant myths for the Hadza thinking of baboons as close relatives who took a different path. Between them, Sahlins -- his neat idea that the revolutionary switch was from sex organising society to society organising sex -- and the Hadza hunters were giving UEL students the best possible education on what made us human. If only I made a recording of that lecture that day (October 2004).</p><p>Western scientists led by expert of Hadza studies Brian Wood, are catching up! Co-authors importantly include Hadza scholar Mariamu <a href="https://c.im/tags/Anyawire" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Anyawire</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Hadzabe" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hadzabe</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/huntergatherers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>huntergatherers</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humanrevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>humanrevolution</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.0521" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">royalsocietypublishing.org/doi</span><span class="invisible">/10.1098/rstb.2022.0521</span></a></p>