BIO 358 Lecture 23: BIO358, Lecture 23
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Topic: aircraft, missiles, and the rise of the pan-global human coalition. History emerges from inexpensive coercive threat that emerges at each social scale. Pan global human cooperation plays by the same rules. Gunpowder handguns allowed to seize back control in hierarchal states that brought forth the modern democratic state large adaptive revolution. As we drive toward understanding of contemporary world, bear in mind our unique status as a cultural animal- have capacity to apply wisdom that is dramatically different from the past. Potential and opportunity exists for us to fulfill our destiny. No true democracies on planet earth- countries that are much more democratized than others. Last time we will use globe as a nature lab. Dress of both archaic state leaders and in case of louis xvi, early modern leaders- dressing for constituency and showing their elite power. Benjamin franklin- you see scientific instruments, books, no hint of elite coercive power. No military garb in the first three presidents.
