Human culture sparked by “new kind of connectedness”

Jonah Lehrer explains the import of a study described in Science.

The larger implication is that the birth of human culture was triggered by a new kind of connectedness. For the first time, humans lived in dense clusters, and occasionally interacted with other clusters, which allowed their fragile innovations to persist and propagate. The end result was a positive feedback loop of new ideas.

Sounds an awful lot like what the Internet is doing, no?

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  1. Adrian Chan’s avatar

    makes you wonder what part of connectedness has ever been “new!”

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