The social structure of humans was due to a decisive-and-then-stable shift in the level of selection: from the selection of individuals (for fitness) in apes to the selection associations between individuals (for fecundity & productivity) in humans.
The means by which dominance and submission between ape individuals metamorphosed into the single group structure of obedience to the authority of hominin groups.
New book on Stanley Milgram exposes his conclusions about authority as “theater.”
Mental illnesses lift out into bas-relief segments of our normal emotional function that have been evolved in the successive eras of our six million year hominid legacy, as if placing them under a microscope and magnifying their fundamental elements. The anxiety disorders reveal that the source of their emanation is our social ecology. Separation …
