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“cliometrics” or economic history.
Charles R. Morris • The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy
David Reich – How One Small Tribe Conquered the World 70,000 Years Ago
youtube.comSo, in one sense, the story arc of human history is, above all, the grand narrative of how humans have kept becoming part of a larger us, over and over again. The evolutionary biologist and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin saw this process, which he called ‘planetization’, as directly comparable to evolution – indeed, as an extension of it.
... See moreAlex Evans • The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough
This discrepancy between evolutionary success and individual suffering is perhaps the most important lesson we can draw from the Agricultural Revolution.
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
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