Then let me hear no more of our kind's natural necessity to form hierarchical groups. An observer viewing human life shortly after cultural takeoff would easily have concluded that our species was destined to be irredeemably egalitarian except for distinctions of sex and age.
Just got back from dinner at Outback with the fam... not very "green," but I did get to see my family! It's my brother's birthday, and he's 22. I feel so old!