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Walter Scheidel adds a bit more meat on the bones in The Great Leveler, which deals a bit with social formation as such from a biological standpoint, but I generally avoid stuff like the book Sapiens, which apparently does more of that. S Pinker of course does too
Usually my approach, particularly on the team shows and even the standalone eps, is discussing specifics and proceeding inductively, but some have said they missed the “prior” approach of exactly the stuff you have a gripe with, so I dusted off an old lecture of mine
Oh no no no, I’m not Hobbesian at all. His “state of Nature” was mythical and ideological. And I reject Pinker as naive (and rather bigoted). But that is neither here nor there. What I wrote was in relation to the 1st 30 mins or so of your episode &, pretty irrelevant, ->
to where you took the argumentation in the second half.
So just disregard my comments.
I found the 2nd half intensely interesting & understood, in that light, the 1st 30 mins. 
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