First of all, sociology is hardly a "hard science" like electrical engineering. It still has a long way to go before it is properly understood.
Exactly my point. No proof required ergo not a true science.
Second, I'm not making "if frogs had wings" argument. I'm saying that egalitarian societies HAVE existed, therefore it proves their possibility. Nothing theoretical about that.
Similar to breeding a chimera in a laboratory, watching it prematurely age and noting that it died without reaching puberty and declaring it a successful species IMO.
Another thing to take into consideration is the fact that the human brain (and psychology) are still evolving. As time goes on, we shed more and more of our chimp-like thinking that is only concerned with social status and aggression.
The continued success of marketing newer better technology in developed countries, China seeking to become preeminent in world markets and launching its first carrier, tensions between Afghanistan/Pakistan and India /Pakistan, Turkey making itself a player in the ongoing Arab/Israel conflict, Christians versus Muslims in Nigeria, border conflicts between Thailand and Cambodia and myriad other examples all belie that
assumption. Also evidence of evolution happening is properly viewed in retrospect on a macro scale not inferred to suit one's preferred worldview.
I have a friend who's a professor of Evolutionary Psychology at UCLA. We've had discussions on the subject, and he agrees with me that human hierarchy will probably evolve to be more dog-like and less chip-like. There's less cheating and deception in dog societies and they are closer to a true meritocracy. Chimps on the other hand are socially corrupt and based on ever shifting alliances. This is due to the fact that chimps don't need to cooperate with eachother, they only use eachother for protection against predators.
Your friend agrees with you that humans will
probably become more dog like in interacting with each other? That is supposition on both of your parts - hardly a scientific approach IMO. In the 1960s futurists were predicting flying cars in common use by the 1990s and people wearing Jetson outfits.
Furthermore the top dog controls the other dogs through intimidation and they show acceptance of his authority by getting on the ground and exposing their belly. Humans already have their own version of this when a new office manager takes over and has the minions rearrange the office furniture because it is "more efficient". That is a combined pissing the bush and assertion through (veneer of polite) growling to let everyone know who is now top dog in the office.
Chimps do cooperate with each other - to take over the group, establish mating rights, control territory and make war on other chimp groups. Review Goodall.