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IN THE STONE AGE
NATURAL SELECTION
TESTED YOU EVERY SINGLE MOMENT
OF EVERY SINGLE DAY, AND IF YOU FLUNKED ANY OF ITS NUMEROUS TESTS
YOU WERE PUSHING UP THE DAISIES IN NO TIME! Yet despite the superior toolmaking abilities
of our Stone Age ancestors, & despite their sharper minds & far more acute senses, 20,000 years ago
humankind was much weaker than it is today! Over those 20,000 years humankind moved from hunting
mammoth with stone-tipped spears to exploring the solar system with spaceships not thanks to evolution
of more dexterous hands or bigger brains (our brains today seem actually to be smaller)?! Instead, the crucial
factor in our conquest of the world wàs our ability to connect many humans to one another! Humans nowadays
completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than
the individual chimp or wolf, but because Homo sapiens is the only species on earth capable of cooperating
flexibly in large numbers? Intelligence ànd toolmaking were obviously very important as well! But if humans had
not learned to cooperate flexibly in large numbers our crafty brains & deft hands would still be splitting flintstone
rather than uranium atoms? Ìf cooperation ìs the key, how come the ants and bees did not beat us to the nuclear
bomb even though they learned to cooperate en masses millions of years before us? Because théir
cooperation is still lacking sufficient flexibility!!! Bees cooperate in very sophisticated ways,
but they cannot reinvent their social system overnight.
If a hive faces a new threat or a new
opportunity, the bees cannot,
for example, guillotine
the queen &
establish a
republic.

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