An Interdisciplinary Perspective of the Human Patriarchy

Abstract

This article discussed the origin and mechanism of occurrence towards Human patriarchy by compared with two kinds of great apes who have the similar genes with human being: chimpanzees and bonobos. Besides, the article traced the evolution of human beings in order to show how food and competition affects the onset of patriarchy as well as the reason of chimpanzees and bonobos’ different social behavior under different environmental pressure. After these comparisons, the article pointed out the unique and special characteristic of human beings and forecasted the future of human social formation.