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Aurhority is not necessarily hierarchy. Ideally I follow an elders authority based on their experience and from my own free will, not because of coercion or force. Especially when following an elders advice might be a matter of live and death for me and my group.
This is why I suggested aboriginal Australians here as an alternative. Their authority figures definie their social hierarchy, but given the more narrow colloquial label-based understanding of authority and hierarchy, one can freely think of Australian Aboriginal hierarchy as anarchic.
gonna chime in here. we refer to this as the authority of the boot-maker.
then the first homonids were already epistemically authorizing their care givers through imitations.