Is It a Cyclical Theory of History?

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i'm always sceptical of pcycle cycles, cyclical theories of historyounw we mention in our off camera discussion. Stephen j gould, you know, is ponent of contingency. History moves along very contingent. There are very few cycles. Even economists now have largely given up on psyclical theories of economics. It may take quite a lot of brain power to say, i have four people, and the different people are doing the same thing 4 ways. What am i going to choose? What criteria do I use for my decision-making process? And so that's what makes a rapid, intedetic evolutiona more time consuming. Is one of the reasons why cultural

In a few decades, a torrent of new evidence and ideas about human evolution has allowed scientists to piece together a more detailed understanding of what went on thousands and even millions of years ago. Lesley Newson and Peter Richerson, a husband-and-wife team based at the University of California, Davis, have spent years together and individually researching and collaborating with scholars from a wide range of disciplines to produce a deep history of humankind. In A Story of Us, they present this rich narrative and explain how the evolution of our genes relates to the evolution of our cultures.