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If it's biological, explain what possible evolutionary advantage being a reclusive puzzle-solving obsessive would have offered in a pre-technological culture -
by TheOtherHobbes 5y ago
If it's biological, explain what possible evolutionary advantage being a reclusive puzzle-solving obsessive would have offered in a pre-technological culture - i.e. most of human history.
For most of human history and for most humans there was nothing to study, invent, or analyse. Certainly not anything that would take years of reclusive effort.
At the absolute really-pushing-it earliest, academics and abstraction only became a thing in the late Stone Age - which is hundreds of thousands of years after modern humans emerged.
- prirun 5y ago> If it's biological, explain what possible evolutionary advantage being a reclusive puzzle-solving obsessive would have offered in a pre-technological culture - i.e. most of human history. It would make a better hunter?
- yucky 5y agoBefore guns, working out a strategy to hunt big game would take an obsessive approach to details and A/B testing, with potential death on the line.