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The process Jiang defines as open, cooperative competition among groups without a central hegemon, producing innovation under scarcity.
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social evolution
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...about the story. Okay? Within these stories, we can see the evolution of societies over time, okay? So let's go back to the story..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...about the story. Okay? Within these stories, we can see the evolution of societies over time, okay? So let's go back to the story..."
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Those embedded myths show social evolution in Mesopotamia: Tiamat is the life-giving mother goddess of agriculture, the gods mark the urban world, and the battle marks the old agricultural order against the new urban order.
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The steppes create a different problem: people cannot eat grass or easily grow crops there, so scarcity pushes steppe peoples into social evolution.
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Jiang argues that the most ruthless groups in a competitive system adopt innovations for destruction and become the sole hegemon.
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"...about the story. Okay? Within these stories, we can see the evolution of societies over time, okay? So let's go back to the story..."
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"She's the one who gives life. So this shows Mesopotamia as an agricultural civilization. And then you have the emergence of the gods, which..."
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"...the people on the steppes engage in a process we call social evolution, okay?"
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"So you may have heard the term evolution. I want to explain what the term evolution means for our class, because we will refer..."
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"Does that make sense? They are the most ruthless in adopting all innovations for the sole purpose of destroying others and becoming the sole..."
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"...exchange wives, exchange presents, okay? So this is a process of social evolution that has created the most innovation in human history. So in..."
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"...that make sense to you guys? This is what we call social evolution, okay?"
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Mesopotamia turns geography into mythology: where Egypt imagines divine generosity and pyramidal immortality, the land between two uncooperative rivers learns struggle, creative destruction, and the more fragile immortality of being remembered by the people...
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Old Europe begins as a Mother Goddess world of agriculture, unity, women, peace, and art.
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