> Engineering and construction are pretty modern fields The mental tasks required of engineering are far, far, far, older. Things like abstract reasoning, dist

> Engineering and construction are pretty modern fields The mental tasks required of engineering are far, far, far, older. Things like abstract reasoning, distance estimation and measurement, rotation and scaling of objects, maps, and abstract shapes in one's head, ability to standardize and compute measures and weights, etc, were all adaptations that improved our effectiveness at hunting, building shelter, and both defense against, and offense toward, opposing tribes. Modern engineering is an enormous pile of abstractions on top of "Grog think rock weigh seven stick".