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.... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 2 2 Our long childhoods (view hidden) retry 2 2 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... 1y ago (collapse hidden) retry 6 6 I would argue that w (view hidden) retry 6 6