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“Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.”

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Book:Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition
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“For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.”

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Book:Self and Society: Studies in the Evolution of Cutlture, Second Enlarged Edition
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