Watch them grow and grow...

Because we are still making the city, we have yet to see or even understand the kind of animal the city will make of us. Indeed, what has yet to be developed is an urban niche construction theory. A comparison of the larynx in chimpanzees and the one in humans reveals that vocal language itself is a niche that has shaped and reshaped the human body in much the same way the pond of a dam has shaped and reshaped the beaver. After language, the city....