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Episode 2: Complex Society

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What Is Complexity?

It was about three thousand b c tat our first complex societies started showing up. And so knowing it took millions of years to kind of hit this point, what caused such a crazy, rapid transition? What was the tipping point on this exped agrowth? The answer to that is that they stopped producing just what they needed to get by,. They started, through some technological advances to be able to produce a surplus and give them access to more energy.

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