here we are, jacks of nearly every trade imaginable, and simultaneously the masters of nearly every habitat on Earth. Our niche is nearly unbounded, and when we do find boundaries, we nearly immediately begin to test them. It’s as if we don’t believe there will ever be a final frontier. Homo sapiens is not merely exceptional. We are exceptionally exceptional.9 Unrivaled in our adaptability, ingenuity, and exploitative capacity, we have come to specialize in everything over the course of hundreds of thousands of years. We enjoy the competitive advantage of being specialists, without paying the
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