You're misusing Occam's Razor because of a misunderstanding about indigenous people's capacity for engineering. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24712701 https://w

You're misusing Occam's Razor because of a misunderstanding about indigenous people's capacity for engineering. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24712701 https://www.jstor.org/stable/24712701 https://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-8/targeted-interventions-in-marine-chemistry/alkalinity-enhancement-an-approach-in-its-infancy/the-shellfish-trick-of-the-native-north-americans/ https://worldoceanreview.com/en/wor-8/targeted-interventions... https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/indigenous-peoples-have-shucked-billions-oysters-around-world-sustainably https://www.si.edu/newsdesk/releases/indigenous-peoples-have... Native Americans in the Pacific Northwest actively encouraged the formation of geological structures in order to increase shellfish yield and sustainability. You seem to think that the simplest explanation is that people just copied happy accidents, when the level of sophistication of these systems combined with the documented propensity of humans to actively engineer their way out of problems leads to the simplest explanation being that what we see with both the food forests and mariculture is such active engineering. The only way to come to a different conclusion is to assume that something is fundamentally different between Old World and New World populations just because one group's processes are relatively well-documented and the other's isn't. However, that conclusion would be colored by your relative inexperience with the shape of New World solutions. We're just discovering these phenomena because we didn't have the vision to see that they existed, biased as we are to the Eurasian perspective. If all you know are wheels, you won't recognize llama tracks, as it were.