The Pause Principle is present in economies, physiologies, ecologies, organizations and nations.

FORBES: The Value Of Stepping Back To Achieve More

For the latest research shows their physiologies are linked in ways which make the idea of a human superorganism more than just a rhetorical flourish.

ECONOMIST: Modern medicine

The protection they receive from farmers is, in evolutionary terms, a quid pro quo for the fact that their physiologies are modified to serve human ends, rather than being sharpened for the cut and thrust of life in the wild.

ECONOMIST: GM crop plants are less weed-like than weedy