James Keys and Tunde Ogunlana take a look at a recent attempt to quantify the extent to which culture, as opposed to genetic evolution, enabled humans to quickly adapt to different conditions and rapidly spread out all over world, discuss elements from Yuval Noah Harari’s “Sapiens” which touched on this concept a decade ago, and consider how the convergence of culture that defines the modern age may make humans less equipped for long term survival.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-conquered-the-planet-300-times-faster-than-genetic-evolution-can-explain/
https://bookshop.org/p/books/sapiens-tenth-anniversary-edition-a-brief-history-of-humankind-yuval-noah-harari/031a784adc6e9de4
https://bookshop.org/p/books/talking-to-my-daughter-about-the-economy-or-how-capitalism-works-and-how-it-fails-yanis-varoufakis/a80f455d5d06db18?ean=9780374538491
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