The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall Audiobook (Free)

The epic story and ultimate big history of how human being society evolved from intimate chimp communities in to the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species

If a chimpanzee projects into the territory of the different group, it’ll probably be killed. But a New Yorker can journey to Los Angeles–or Borneo–with very little fear. Psychologists have done little to explain this: for years, they have kept that our biology places a hard top limit–about 150 people–on how big is our social groupings. But individual societies are in fact vastly larger. Just how do we manage–by and large–to get along with each additional?

Within this paradigm-shattering book, biologist Tag W. Moffett pulls on findings in mindset, sociology and anthropology to describe the interpersonal adaptations that bind societies. He explores the way the stress between identity and anonymity defines how societies develop, function, and fail. Surpassing Weapons, Germs, and Steel and Sapiens, The Individual Swarm shows how mankind developed sprawling civilizations of unrivaled complexity–and what it will take to maintain them.