Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed - WSJ.com

"Trade is to culture as sex is to biology. Exchange makes cultural change collective and cumulative. It becomes possible to draw upon inventions made throughout society, not just in your neighborhood."

Evolution and Creativity: Why Humans Triumphed - WSJ.com:



A fascinating article from the Wall Street Journal. The first really plausible explanation I've yet seen explaining the burst of change in mankind starting roughly 50,000 years ago.


Thanks to Douglas Reid of Queens University, Kingston Ontario for recommending it.