Very interesting. I've been reading a lot on the "geographical journey of humanity" as discovered though genomes - modern and ancient. Prof. Galor's ideas have an obvious connection. I hope the book gets into the mixing of populations that have repeatedly occurred in our past. I had my Kindle version half through the interview.
Glen, you were bothered by Galor's remarks on human stagnation. Perhaps the way David Deutsch puts it in "The Beginning of Infinity" is more felicitous:
'Progress that is both rapid enough to be noticed and stable enough to continue over many generations has been achieved only once in the history of our species.'
Very interesting. I've been reading a lot on the "geographical journey of humanity" as discovered though genomes - modern and ancient. Prof. Galor's ideas have an obvious connection. I hope the book gets into the mixing of populations that have repeatedly occurred in our past. I had my Kindle version half through the interview.
Glen, you were bothered by Galor's remarks on human stagnation. Perhaps the way David Deutsch puts it in "The Beginning of Infinity" is more felicitous:
'Progress that is both rapid enough to be noticed and stable enough to continue over many generations has been achieved only once in the history of our species.'