Most Western and Eastern societies, under whatever form of government, are vertically organised. In political institutions, industry, trades unions and the arts power is disseminated downwards. Is the ' tree still the best form of organisation for our time?
Scholars in different fields of research are questioning this.
1: Man the Double Animal by Dr Jonathan Miller , Research Fellow in the History of Medicine. University College, London
In 1905 Sir Henry Head , a consultant neurologist at the London Hospital, and W. H. R. Rivers , a psychiatrist and anthropologist, conducted a remarkable experiment.
Series producer LEONIE COHN (10 July: Prof Patrick Wall )