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The findings are interesting and indicates just how much you can improve a "low tech" process by persisting and refining it over hundreds of years. Comparison
by sorokod 8y ago
The findings are interesting and indicates just how much you can improve a "low tech" process by persisting and refining it over hundreds of years.
Comparison to American civil war success rates looks arbitrary and odd though.
- booleandilemma 8y agoIt makes for an eye-catching headline. Also, the author has posted other articles with the theme of “native peoples did it first/better than westerners”: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/did-early-easter-islanders-sail-south-america-europeans http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/did-early-easter-isla... http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/it-wasnt-just-greece-archaeologists-find-early-democratic-societies-americas http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/it-wasnt-just-greece-... Unearthing democracy's roots: http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6330/1114 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/355/6330/1114
- sorokod 8y agoLink to the paper: https://www.worldneurosurgery.org/article/S1878-8750(18)30625-9/fulltext https://www.worldneurosurgery.org/article/S1878-8750(18)3062...