
Blueprints for Civilisation, Post-traumatic Growth & Re-imagining the Role of the Human with Dr. Zachary Stein
Curious Humans with Jonny Miller
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The Oxygen Crisis
Beale: I once heard you show an anecdote about, the i think, what was known as the oxygen crisis millions of years ago. Beale: It is a the emergence of life that metabilized oxygen, which you imagine, through evolutionary groping, would occur. When oxygen becomes in surplus, and other routes towards preserving life or account of becoming increasingly blocked, you would get the emergence of something that solved the crisisThrough a novelty, and an evolutionary noveltys tat was a key moment. Ayany: If you start to apply that logic up through culture and history, which people have that actually human innovation, an emergence of novel in cultural evolution, is a response, usually
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