Readable atlas · Release 0.35
How ideas travel through people
Teaching, collaboration, institutions and influence are different lines
A route through the human lineage layer without turning every contact into influence.
Follow this journey interactively
Begin with a named contributor
A person's work can be historically central without making that person the sole origin of a field.
Separate parallel development
Shared problems and correspondence can coexist with independent lines of work. The evidence must say which relation is being claimed.
Add institutions and gatherings
Laboratories, conferences and editorial settings often carry ideas between people more accurately than a chain of person-to-person arrows.
Trace adoption and transformation
A practitioner can inherit concepts, reshape them and build methods whose practical lineage differs from their formal antecedents.
End at a method, not a family myth
The method gathers formal, historical, organisational and practical strands. The atlas should show those different strands rather than compress them into one heroic genealogy.
Taylor, B. P. (2026). How ideas travel through people. The Necessary Tangle, release 0.35. https://transduction.systems/journeys/journey_human_lineage/