@jd Are most mammals hierarchical? I'm skeptical of statements like that, considering the history of interpretation bias in explorers and researchers. Why do we call the big ant that lays all the eggs in the colony the "Queen", for instance? You could just as well call her the "brood slave". Did the people who first "scientifically" described ants have a bias towards naturalizing/glorifying monarchy? I'd put money on it.

But that doesn't really matter. If being mammals predisposes us to something, that means that it's a genetic trait. I don't think hierarchy is genetic. I think it's social programming, which can most certainly be overcome. ✊