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Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past
We know that life’s remarkable robustness, in large part, is dependent on variation; systems that suppress or lose their diversity are prone to collapse.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
less able to respond to significant change.
Geoffrey West • Scale
While natural selection traded strength for fat, increasingly complex tools and techniques drove another key genetic change: the human neocortex sends corticospinal connections deeper into the motor neurons, spinal cord, and brain stem than in other mammals. It is the depth of these connections—in part—that facilitates our fine dexterity for learne
... See moreJoseph Henrich • The Secret of Our Success
This is typical of subsistence societies,
Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems
The brain of each and every one of us is built around a reptilian core,
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
David Epstein range
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
They tended to view individual liberty as animalistic.