Herding and the mammalian brain

The mammalian break through was more sophisticated herding tools that developed out of the olfactory brain. Herding, broadly defined as maintaining he proper spread of he species to match the environment. Developing herding tools makes it easier to match the species to an environment.

Hence, at the root, the evolutionary basis for the economy is the queue length, the individual agent is a queue manager. From equilibrium, the queue model would respond to shock by establishing inventory flow, in which the human flow managers would never queue up deliveries more than three in a line.

This effect is seen in the plane boarding problem. The queue manager wants to opimize the use of the aisle during loading, but there is a service tie for each passenger to sow the carry one and get into the seat. The optimum soution has one or two passengers stalled behind a passenger stowing and sitting. If the third person in the queue appears too frequently, then the boarding gate should lower its 'convoy' quant from four per group to three per group. The supply chain adjusts quant sizes. This ability would be a great boon to evolution in picking sustainable herds and running more advanced migrations.