Christopher Boehm, an "evolutionary anthropologist and a specialist in primate studies," notes that human beings have a "whole panoply of tactics collectively employed to bring would-be braggarts and bullies down to earth--ridicule, shame, shunning [...]--none of which have any parallel among other primates"
this form of "counter-bullying," for Boehm, represents a "well-thought-out strategy," an "attempt to understand what [a] society would look like if they did things differently"
Boehm's "actuarial intelligence," or more simply "politics" ("what other primates never do," in Graeber/Wengrow's summation)