Humanity's achievements are group achievements. Almost every important problem has been solved by superminds (hierarchies, democracies, markets, communities and ecosystems), not by individuals alone, and it was the collective intelligence of human groups, not individual brains, that first set our ancestors apart from other animals.

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  it was the collective intelligence of human groups, not the intelligence of individual humans, that first differentiated our human ancestors from all their animal relatives

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  almost all our important problems are solved by groups of people rather than by individuals alone

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  the history of humanity is largely the history of human superminds

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