3 million years distilled into one principle: anthropy in the longue durée

Existing frameworks for analysing social disorder—from world-systems theory to ecological economics—tend to treat spatial, temporal, and social externalities as separate phenomena. Anthropy proposes a unified mechanism: social systems displace disorder rather than resolve it. This paper offers a long-duration stylisation—from stone tools to data centres—to show that anthropy is a structural constant of human social organisation, observable over 3.3 million years. Applying a uniform analytical protocol (order created / disorder displaced / dominant transfer type) to seven historical configurations reveals that the modalities of anthropic transfer migrate as displacement spaces become saturated: from spatial to social, then from social to temporal and cognitive.