Sounds like very cool paper, judging from this short story.
I really like how they talk about what we can learn about human society while we study inequality in animal societies.

"We can look to other species to understand the general evolutionary processes that produce all animals, ourselves included," says Strauss, "but the question of what makes an ethical human society is fundamentally a moral question where the social lives of animals can't guide us. This is something we need to figure out on our own."
- Eli D. Strauss, Daizaburo Shizuka

It's very important to recognize the border between scientific questions and moral decisions. Something people often make quite blurry !

yes! It reminds me of an important quote from Boronwski in Science and Human Values "Those who think that science is ethically neutral confuse the findings of science, which are, with the activity of science, which is not." With the understanding that the findings come from the activity, science has always held and expressed the assumptions of it's practitioners. I believe blurring the line happens from ignorance or as part of a rhetorical strategy that I am wary of.