
5 | Geoffrey West on Networks, Scaling, and the Pace of Life
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Scaling of Cities
A friend of mine, a theoretical physicist, wasr having a late night conversation. He said if you divide human history into the most recent ten thousand years and all the, all the years before that, there were a lot more people in pre-history. So anyway, we formed a collaboration to find out why they weren't as busy hunting and gathering. The data are that the hunter gatherer were li os lotte lot of time. They mor like the city density. But that's what a city is. It is that machine for doing that.
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