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Inequality isn’t inevitable, according to ‘unprecedented’ archeology study

A team at Chicago’s Field Museum has published a first-of-its-kind study analyzing 10,000 years’ worth of wealth disparity across six continents. The results, published on April 14 in the journal PNAS, contradict many longstanding...

Apr 14, 2025

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Inequality isn’t inevitable, according to ‘unprecedented’ archeology study

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