Finding Fairness: From Pleistocene Foragers to Contemporary Capitalists.

Jennings argues that even with increased aggregation, bureaucracies, and inequalities, a sense of fairness was often retained. Jennings takes the view that our evolutionary history has produced a visceral desire for fairness even though it is not a hard-wired fairness module, more a loose predisposition or expectation. [Extracted from the article]

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