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> How do you even get to a sharp stick without innovation? Evolution? That's how agriculture and many of our earliest tools were created. I don't think there w
by flukus 10y ago
> How do you even get to a sharp stick without innovation?
Evolution? That's how agriculture and many of our earliest tools were created. I don't think there were many/any single steps that we would consider innovative.
- maxerickson 10y agoI don't see how something like intentionally sharpening a stick would not be an innovation over occasionally finding one.
- flukus 10y agoIt may not have been intentional, it could have been someone rubbing it against a rock out of boardom or trying to start a fire with it then realising it was pointy. In that case it was a discovery, not an innovation. We may have had a very suboptimal way of doing it for centuries while the process evolved. I'm sure a lot of people here have stories of their pets confusing cause and effect.