Scatter, Adapt, And Remember by Annalee Newitz
How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Humans thrive not because of a single genius but because of a three-part strategy: spreading into many environments to explore possibilities, adapting locally through experimentation and social learning, and externalizing knowledge so groups can accumulate and pass on innovations. Drawing on evolution, archaeology, neuroscience, and cultural history, the book shows how play, imitation, material artifacts and institutions create distributed intelligence that tolerates error while enabling rapid change, and it considers how those lessons apply to modern technology and social design.
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