I got stuck on Brad's consecutive blog posts about both the propensity to exchange and the ability to specialize. Then I follow up with the tendency toward economies of scale.
What are the biological basis of these tendencies,and in what order is their precedence? A pure speculation, but I try here and now. First, lizards have the propensity to exchange, but lizards do not specialize. Mammals have inherited that propensity and also have a propensity toward economies of scale. Forming economies of scale is natural for mammals, but specialization is forced upon the mammals by the conflict between economies of scale and environmental restrictions.
So, in summary. Lizards have great propensity to exchange and weak tendency toward economies of scale. Mammal have both tendencies in abundance. Environmental restrictions force specialization on all mammals.
I am still not sure what separates the human from the other mammals, but I am working on it. Basically it has to do with brain hemisphere separation and right handedness.
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