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all life (e. g. animal kingdom) power dynamics.
I got the idea from watching the documentary "going ape", recommended by another member in the forum.
As power seems to be something that predates the origins of mankind it is worthy of an exploration in relation to others forms of life.
Definitely.
All life in itself can be seen as a constant struggle for power, control, and domination.
Even before a second species even emerged life could be seen as fighting against non-life forms for pure survival and reproduction.
However, it's a mistake that many authors commit in seeing life as only as an eternal struggle and competition (including Steven Pinker).
Life is struggle and competition as much as it is collaboration. Starting from our own body, with different cells and organs collaborating, to extra-species collaboration -think of our gut bacteria-, to inter-species collaboration -how we built this civilization-.
But also that collaboration is governed by power dynamics, with the incentives sometimes shifting between collaboration and competition.
