There is no human who can survive as an individual independent of culture. So hat this gets to the superorganism dynamic that i write about. But it's a product of the co operation built on top of energy surplus. Because complexity of the things that you're talking about, the plows and the things to make the wheat and everything requires energy,. and more complexity requires more energy.

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