"A few years back, there was a visitor, external faculty member, what have you, at the Santa Fe Institute who wrote a book (I swear!) entitled Democracy in the Forest. He commuted for a time from UCLA, or some other LA university. The book title does not pop, although several entries regarding a book with a similar title do. "
http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1003114 Boehm, C. H. (1999). Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.
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