单词 | countertendency |
释义 | countertendencynoun coun·ter·ten·den·cy ˌkau̇n-tər-ˈten-dən(t)-sē variants or counter-tendency plural countertendencies or counter–tendencies : a tendency that opposes or offsets another tendency So what we have in human history is probably a long time, millions of years, in which we were like the current hunter gatherers. Fairly egalitarian. Meaning we had a tendency to build hierarchies, but we also had a countertendency, which is to keep things sort of level. Frans de Waal |
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