in thread "The Biosingularity": Our long childhoods and big brains may be due to an evolutionary drive towards increased social intelligence because complex cultures have evolutionary benefit. ... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 22 Our long childhoods (view hidden) 22 I would argue that we were doing far more of this in the pre-industrial era, when families were a foundational economic unit. For example, a family/clan might be responsible for the production of a particular pottery export, or several generations may have... 14mo ago (collapse hidden) 66 I would argue that w (view hidden) 66