coupland's Journal: Why have sciences progressed where social skills haven't?

In the seven million years since Homo Sapiens evolved, our grasp of science has increased exponentially. We have mastered fire, the elements, engineering, physics, the atom, and relativity.

However our knowledge of the vagaries of social interaction remain unchanged. Human communities are still ruled by alpha males, popularity is still more about dominance than intelligence, and prominence in the social structure has more to do with social ability than intelligence. It seems that social hierarchies and primitive social structures have deviated only minimally from their evolutionary origins, while knowledge and scientific understanding have increased exponentially.

Why can we not advance socially even while progressing so quickly scientifically? Why does science move so quickly when our own interaction enjoys no huge leaps forward? It's a total mystery to me how we can progress so quickly in the sciences and physics, but not at all in the area of social interaction.