Biological scalability is the ability to support a larger, denser, and/or wealthier population in a given ecosystem.
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Farming was the big breakthrough in biological scalability. Less obvious but still very important were advances in hygiene, such as the use of boiled water (as herbal or proper tea) or alcohol to avoid drinking disease-carrying village water.
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East Asia was probably the biggest early innovator biological scalability: pottery to protect stored food from vermin; alcoholic beverages (made from wild plants) and tea to avoid the need to drink village-polluted water. https://www.penn.museum/sites/biomoleculararchaeology/?page_id=247 …https://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/why-europeans-drank-beer-and-asians-drank-tea/ …
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The same East Asian regions that innovated in biological scalability prior to agriculture also were the first to domesticate dogs. Dogs likely served as intruder alarms for early villages, making them more secure: an increase in social scalability.
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Life itself underwent revolutions that increased its scale. One of the earliest was when it evolved the ability to break the triply-bonded N2 to create the single-N-containing molecules needed to make all amino acids, and thus all proteins. https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2010/10/elements-evolution-and-nitrogen-crisis.html …
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Irrigation if you wanna get real specific. That was a real doozy for biological scalability. By the way, I'm curious to your perspective on finality and the general lack of prioritization for it by the current gen cryptos. Any thoughts?
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Many of the most important scalability technologies also came out of the Second Industrial Revolution. Indoor plumbing and cars, which reduced the amount of manure on streets, allowed for much denser cities.
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This is sort of a chicken and an egg problem, but this could explain why east asians lack the necessary enzyme to metabolize acetaldehyde, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction …
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"breakthrough" in biological scalability doesn't make sense by definition. Given we have evolved, we were scalable. You're quick to separate part of the process from the process itself.
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