Indeed, and arguably, even if you go really far back, even fields like physics and mathematics spawned out from philosophy. Physics was originally known as "nat

Indeed, and arguably, even if you go really far back, even fields like physics and mathematics spawned out from philosophy. Physics was originally known as "natural philosophy" for example. Biology came into existence independently several places, but often it was considered to be a part of Theology, and a study of Gods creation. Hardly any field except philosophy and theology has started as anything other than a specialization of something else.