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than a hundred copies. This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the | than a hundred copies. This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the | ||
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Revolution was a trap.''' | |||
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Seminal book by Yuval Harari.
- The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA
helixes. Just as the economic success of a company is measured only by the number of dollars in its bank account, not by the happiness of its employees, so the evolutionary success of a species is measured by the number of copies of its DNA. If no more DNA copies remain, the species is extinct, just as a company without money is bankrupt. If a species boasts many DNA copies, it is a success, and the species ɻourishes. From such a perspective, 1,000 copies are always better than a hundred copies. This is the essence of the Agricultural Revolution: the ability to keep more people alive under worse conditions.
- Why would
any sane person lower his or her standard of living just to multiply the number of copies of the Homo sapiens genome? Nobody agreed to this deal: the Agricultural Revolution was a trap.