Editing Politics (section)

=== Prehistoric ===
[[Frans de Waal]] argued that [[chimpanzee]]s engage in politics through "social manipulation to secure and maintain influential positions".<ref>{{cite book |last1=de Waal |first1=Frans |title=Chimpanzee politics power and sex among apes |date=2007 |publisher=Johns Hopkins University Press |isbn=978-0-8018-8656-0 |oclc=493546705}}</ref> Early human forms of social organization—bands and tribes—lacked centralized political structures.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fukuyama |first1=Francis |title=The origins of political order : from prehuman times to the French Revolution |date=2012 |publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux |isbn=978-0-374-53322-9 |page=56 |oclc=1082411117}}</ref> These are sometimes referred to as [[Stateless society|stateless societies]].