Quotes:
“Our species does represent a new evolutionary process”
As we are increasingly coming to realize, our species does represent a new evolutionary process — cultural evolution — that far surpasses cultural traditions in other species. This capacity for cultural evolution enabled our ancestors to spread over the globe, inhabiting all climatic zones and dozens of ecological niches. Then small-scale societies — “tiny grains of thought”" — coalesced into larger and larger societies over the past ten thousand years. Human activities now rival other living processes and non-living physical processes in shaping the earth and atmosphere….
David Sloan Wilson, 2019 from the interview “This View of Life: Completing the Darwinian Revolution”
© 2019 David Sloan Wilson