Summary Keypoints: From genes to minds to cultures: Evolutionary approaches to leadership. - Vugt & von Rueden (2020)
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Leadership in Organisations (P_BLECO_2)
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Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Van Vugt, M., & von Rueden, C. R. (2020). From genes to minds to cultures: Evolutionary approaches to leadership. The Leadership Quarterly, 31(2), 101404.
Summary of: The Leadership Quarterly
1. Leadership has played a significant role in the biological and cultural evolution of human
sociality, with humans evolving cognitive and behavioral mechanisms to facilitate leader-follower
relations and establish safeguards against overly dominant leaders.
2. Adaptations for leader-follower relationships interact with local ecological and cultural contexts,
leading to cultural variation in leadership preferences and organizational structures.
3. Evolutionary perspectives integrate diverse fields such as biology, psychology, neuroscience,
anthropology, economics, and political science, creating consilience between the social and natural
sciences.
4. Evolutionary approaches produce novel hypotheses and test them, including the critical role of
leadership in cooperation, the importance of contextual factors in leader emergence and
effectiveness, interactions between genetic and cultural influences on leadership, and obstacles
and opportunities for women leaders.
5. Evolutionary perspectives have been applied to leadership processes in various contexts such
as work organizations, politics, and sports, influencing research in cognitive neuroscience in
studying the neural underpinnings of leadership and followership.
6. Evolutionary approaches in leadership study collective behavior in different social species,
incorporating contributions from a diverse range of scientific disciplines, methods, and research
teams operating across the world.
7. Evolutionary perspectives offer insights into the functions and evolutionary history of leadership,
including the emergence and change over the evolutionary history of different species, particularly
in understanding the phylogenetic roots of leadership.
8. The study of leadership has evolved to distinguish between dominance and prestige as means
of acquiring social status in human hierarchies, influencing different leadership archetypes and the
influence strategies they use to recruit and mobilize followers.
9. An evolutionary approach to leadership has implications for understanding the appeal of
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