How does governance evolve?

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The question sort of implies that voting is a concept so complex that it was invented once, and everyone else borrowed the concept from a predecessor.

In fact, tribal societies the world over have long been observed to select leadership and/or decide issues via voting. So this appears to be a fairly natural method of joint decision-making, that certainly goes back far before any written record.

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