Josh Farley: "The Past, Present, and Future of Human Cooperation"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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Co-Operation in a Globalized Environment
In conditions of abundance, they all go round hunting on their own. But when things get scarce, that individual hunting strategy no longer works. They come together in what's called a slug mass, and they can send out little pseuda pods looking for food sources. And they're so efficient at this that they've taken like a topographical map of spain and put food on the map to populate different cities. You put one of these slug masses there, and it will recreate the transportation interstructure of spain as this more efficient way of getting food through co operation. That is only that co operative mechanism is induced entirely by resource scarcity leading to this kind of, perhaps polyanaish
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