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Learning how writing was invented is certainly a step towards understanding the origin of novels.

• FridayoLeary 5y ago
  studying the behaviour of a monkey when introduced to a typewriter doesn't. Studying the formation of a few molecules in a controlled environment hardly explains how living forms came to exist.
  • gliptic 5y ago
    If you never learn where a few molecules came from, how could you possibly make progress on the problem?
    • dekhn 5y ago
      we made substantial progress in biology before we understood molecules. this is because it's not necessary to be entirely reductive to understand larger systems.
      • gliptic 5y ago
        Yes, but we're talking origin of life.