“So now there are six billion earthlings, termites with big brains and overactive glands, who are inhabiting the same planet earth, but are moving through different levels of thinking simultaneously” … “Because of the nature habitats, which is places that we live, whether island people, mountain people, people of the sand that impacts in a Petri dish how human nature forms in those bio-regions, and based on the genetic migration of biological DNA-scripts.And then based on the coping systems, the complex adaptive intelligences that come out of these brews, that what we’ve been able to identify is how human nature has produced value structures, layers and levels of complexity of thinking in people and in group beings. That’s called a spiral.”

Don Beck - management consultant and co-author of the book Spiral Dynamics.