Is Political Evolution Over?: Anthropological Analysis Of The Twentieth Century

In Graber’s (2015) “Is Political Evolution Over? An Anthropological Analysis of the Twentieth Century” explains how societies evolved from small groups into enormous populated nations. The author first explains how the growth of a society is not based on the number of societies but the number of people in a society. Graber then explains, from the growth of a society comes what he calls political evolution. Attributed to political evolution is the act of war. Graber explains that war directly led to the political evolution of large societies, giving the reader an example of how winning a war expands the society meaning that new political positions are being made and need to be filled. Two supposed roles of political evolution are political