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| | Social Evolution of Consciousness |
 | | Biologists tell us that in the last 35,000 years, our biological make-up has changed so little as to be irrelevant to the enormous changes we have seen in our consciousness (Glantz and Pearce, 1989), all of which are the result of the evolution of our social arrangements. |
 | | By roughly 3000 BC, certain areas of the world, such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Babylon, had moved to a new stage of social evolution, characterized by agriculture, the use of bronze, the first cities, and the first political units that could be called states. |
 | | However, they were dissociated from each other in that they were split between different groups in the population, with the male ruling class exhibiting the emergent quality and the oppressed classes and women the ground quality. |
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