An order not written in the genes survives only by deliberate storage and reteaching, so it can grow no larger than what its carriers can hold and retrieve.

Evidence 2 passages

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  Because the sapien's social order is imagined, humans cannot preserve the critical information for running it simply by making copies of their DNA and passing these on to their progeny. A conscious effort has to be made to sustain laws, customs, procedures, and manners, otherwise the social order would quickly collapse.

• groundsSource document

  When the amount of people and property in a particular society crossed a critical threshold, it became necessary to store and process large amounts of mathematical data. Since the human brain could not do it, the system collapsed.

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