SoS9: Doomed to Mad Maxian World? Evolution of inequality with Mary Shenk & Siobhan Mattison

In our 9th episode we talk with Drs. Mary Shenk and Siobhán Mattison about the evolution of persistent institutional inequality. Dr. Shenk is an associate professor of anthropology at Penn State University and Dr. Mattison is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of New Mexico. The paper we discussed is “The Evolution of Inequality” published by Evolutionary Anthropology in 2016. https://faculty.washington.edu/easmith/Mattison,Smith,Shenk&Cochrane2016-EvAnth.pdf You can contact Dr. Shenk via email: mks74@psu.edu You can contact Dr. Mattison via email: smattison@unm.edu & twitter: @siobhanmattison Evolutionary Anthropology on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/evanthsociety/ The song in the soundbed is “Always Lyin’” by the Morning Shakes. Contact Us: https://www.facebook.com/groups/humanbiologyassociation http://humbio.org/ https://twitter.com/HumBioAssoc Michaela Howells is Chair of the Publicity Committee, howellsm@uncw.edu Cara & Chris are committee members and produce this show: Cara Ocobock http://www.albany.edu/anthro/72074.php cocobock@albany.edu https://twitter.com/CaraOcobock Chris Lynn http://cdlynn.people.ua.edu/ cdlynn@ua.edu https://twitter.com/Chris_Ly