Frances Fukuyama: Trajectory Without Teleology - What’s driving the “long arc of history”?
The Daily Evolver
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The Evolution of Humanity
Early human communities organized themselves into bands of a few dozen individuals, generally all relatives of one another. These bands were replaced by what we commonly call tribes, in which groups claiming descent from a common ancestor could scale up to encompass thousands of people. A different type of organization then appeared, the state, in which power was centralized in a single authority. He says, state level societies grew enormously in scale and could encompass millions of inhabitants.
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