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Back in the day human populations very absolutely tiny, supposedly being reduced to 10-30k as late as 75k years ago. I would expect opportunities for any meani
by ffhhttt 3y ago
Back in the day human populations very absolutely tiny, supposedly being reduced to 10-30k as late as 75k years ago.
I would expect opportunities for any meaningful innovation to be very limited at such low densities. Anything “invented” would likely stay within your group and be lost in a few generations. Then it would have to be rediscovered several times until it caught on amongst a larger population.
- inglor_cz 3y agoInterestingly, even small and isolated human groups tend to have very rich oral culture. Why do people "innovate" their story-telling and songs so much faster than their tools?
- Nasrudith 3y agoBecause one is a vector for storing information which mutates over time while still preserving. Physical tools are more complicated, exist as discrete physical instances and knowledge depending upon skill to make it, component availability (needing flint for example), and mutation can occur seperately. Just because you used a partially burnt piece of wood to make a better spear doesn't mean you have the techniques for fire-hardening wooden weapons down.