ABSTRACT
Territoriality and prevalence are universal in survival behaviours within the natural kingdom. Social stratification in primate and non-primate animal species implies restricted or hierarchically driven inequalities in food access and reproductive rights. These fundamental, ancestral inequalities projected onto more complex social groups – as in humans – remain in modern times. Inequality represents one of the most frequent causes of social struggles and a potential source of early brain and mental developmental disadvantages. Until now, socio-political systems have only replaced the order of hierarchies but did not eliminate inequalities. The latter may reach profound levels of human social and cognitive deterioration, projecting sombre horizons on their development and insertion in the social structures of a dynamic world. Though some indicators would appear to have improved in the last 50 years, they do so at a pace that keeps formidable human groups sequestered from modern life’s educational and cognitive advantages and at a disadvantage to fight for their social insertion and personal fulfilment. While global indices regarding access to education, health, and living conditions move up through the stairs, the profit of world minorities and Star Wars technological projects move up by elevator. The corporate race has been launched, mimicking the animal dominance drive transformed into human dominance.
