Claims / C-9ES0KSRXJS

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Individual human cognitive capacity has not materially changed over 300,000 years while collective capability has grown explosively, so growth in civilisational capability is attributable to accumulation and coordination rather than to improvement in individuals.

Human nature

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    We did not become smarter over the millennia. What changed, dramatically and explosively, was our collective capability

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