Hi Jef, you’ll get no criticism from me. I’ve just completed a paper on human cognitive coevolution, and one of the central results is very close to what you’re describing for the last 10k years. Before that small groups cooperated on shared outcomes for 7 million years of exponential cognitive evolution. Now people prioritize education and career past their reproductive prime and world total fertility rate is fast falling below replacement. Do you think this trend will stop on its own?
Hi Jef, you’ll get no criticism from me. I’ve just completed a paper on human cognitive coevolution, and one of the central results is very close to what you’re describing for the last 10k years. Before that small groups cooperated on shared outcomes for 7 million years of exponential cognitive evolution. Now people prioritize education and career past their reproductive prime and world total fertility rate is fast falling below replacement. Do you think this trend will stop on its own?