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The Artificial Ape: How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution by Timothy Taylor

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Timothy Taylor’s thesis is to debunk the notion that our intelligence produced technology. For him, it is the other way round. Our technology produced our intelligence. We became more intelligent with the appearance of technology. He uses the latter word across the times, from prehistory to today as a system of articulated phenomena that make something work. For instance: a bowl presupposes tools to make said bowl, which presuppose knowledge of clay and fire to burn it. A simple bowl is a technology in the sense that it entails several knowledge systems articulated amongst then to produce it. He opens up our minds to things we may have been detached from because of their historical existence in our lives and he connects then to complex technologies of the present.