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Book: The Square and the Tower: Networks, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power
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  1. Niall Ferguson _ The Square and the Tower:

    our species should really be known as Homo dictyous {'network man'} because – to quote the sociologists Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler – 'our brains seem to have been built for social networks'.
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  2. Niall Ferguson _ The Square and the Tower:

    Cities with at least one printing press in 1500 were significantly more likely to adopt Protestantism than cities without printing, but it was cities with multiple competing printers that were most likely to turn Protestant.
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