“Humans and Their Habits In a Long Term Socio-Economic Perspective” by Bert De Vries and Johan Goudsblom, describes the dynamics of human history and how continued advancement requires complexity. Firstly, Vries and Goudsblom begin by telling the readers humanity was approaching a cascade of radical and rapidly accelerating transformations around 1750. Next, Vries and Goudsblom present the ideas of a man named Anne Turgot. Turgot explains the contrast between the human world and physical nature entailing that the world is constantly changing whereas the same cycle repeat themselves in nature endlessly. Furthermore, Vries and Goudsblom explains that dominance is favoured towards humans in the animal kingdom. This dominance has enabled humans