Robin Dunbar's core argument is that human progress isn't built on individual genius — it's built on inheritance. Each generation skips the trial-and-error phase entirely by standing on the solutions of the last. The practical implication: before spending energy solving a problem, exhaustively search for who already solved it. Most 'original' challenges have been cracked before, often better.
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