{"id":306,"date":"2007-09-22T15:47:35","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T14:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=306"},"modified":"2007-09-22T15:47:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T14:47:35","slug":"evolutionary-biology-and-office-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=306","title":{"rendered":"Evolutionary biology and office politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it! The art that is workplace politics goes way <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/software\/science\/how-evolutionary-biology-explains-office-politics-302195.php\" target=\"_blank\">back to our days as hairy apes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On promotions, Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky references baboons:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Big sharp teeth and lots of muscle have tons to do with which males become high-ranking; social intelligence and impulse control have everything to do with which males remain high-ranking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He also says the best way to minimise workplace tension is by having lots of small groups, meaning people can move from one to another if there&#8217;s some small conflict:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Among lots of hunter-gatherers, you don&#8217;t settle the fight with someone by punching it out. You go and hang with your cousins in the next valley for some time instead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew it! The art that is workplace politics goes way back to our days as hairy apes. On promotions, Stanford neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky references baboons: Big sharp teeth and lots of muscle have tons to do with which males become high-ranking; social intelligence and impulse control have everything to do with which males remain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[46],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}