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The Dance of Innovation - Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies (Hardcover)
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The Dance of Innovation - Infrastructure, Social Oscillation, and the Evolution of Societies (Hardcover)
Series: Evolutionary Analysis in the Social Sciences
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Few of us, amidst our daily chores and responsibilities, consider
how mundane infrastructures-from electrical grids to sewage
systems-have developed over millennia in ways that enable
everything we cherish, from democracy to technological innovation
to individual liberty. But what drives the evolution of this
infrastructure? And why is infrastructure so critical to human
flourishing? In this book, the most innovative and
interdisciplinary study of cultural evolution ever produced, new
concepts are explored, new histories are brought into contact and
new ground-breaking insights are defended. What makes creativity
unique in human societies is not only our capacity to generate and
modify our diverse individual intuitions about the social and
physical world, but also our capacity to form and leave groups
fluidly in a dancing rhythm of oscillation across the expanse of
history. This book walks the reader carefully through these
processes, with clear concepts and an approachable writing style.
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