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Have you ever wondered why so much wealth is in the hands of so few; why the words in every book ever written in any language follow the same relative ratios of occurrence; why there are huge numbers of tiny organisms but very small numbers of large organisms; why the genome has been so stable since life formed over 3.6 billion years ago? This book explains why and introduces a newly discovered fundamental law of the universe, the Fundamental Law of Inequality. Its subtle footprint crops up in language and literature, the money in your bank account, in the IT revolution, in telecommunications, in DNA the molecular blueprint of life and in Darwinian Evolution, in music, in the way we perceive and measure the world, in death, in religion and even in how much beer we drink. It has been hidden in plain sight for 50 centuries emerging only in the last few years through the conflation of modern IT developments, the growth of software, the growth of digital biology, some choice bits of 19th and 20th century physics and a rich history of literature and language.