I don't think it's brief at all. Animals do this experimentation as well, but clearly in different ways. The scientific method is a formalized version of this i

I don't think it's brief at all. Animals do this experimentation as well, but clearly in different ways. The scientific method is a formalized version of this idea, but even the first human who cooked meat or used a stick as a weapon had a falsifiable hypothesis, even if it wasn't something they could express or explain. And the consequences of testing the hypothesis were something that affected the way they acted from there on out.