In the upper Fraser Canyon, about 250 kilometers northeast of Vancouver, a rocky gorge cuts its way through the interior plateau of British Columbia. Gordon Orians, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, and I have come here to see evidence of the emergence of inequality in the archaeological record of fishing at a place called Keatley Creek. Gordon is my science adviser and co-producer on a multimedia project in which we're investigating the evolution of the human sense of fairness, from its biological roots among the earliest social living animals through its ... Read More