For humans it is the opposite. The human niche is niche switching. Our niches transform radically, sometimes over remarkably short distances. Consider again the difference between populations of arctic hunters who hunt big game a few kilometers inland and those who specialize in aquatic mammals at the coast. Those specialties require radically different skill sets, and would not be possible if each individual had to discover the secrets to hunting effectively on their own. The solution to this conundrum is so familiar to us that we rarely think to marvel at it. Recall the Omega principle,
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