>>509758251Yea, it shouldn't be that difficult. Greeks didn't even believe in writing shit down, they preserved info through stories mostly and only later (thankfully for the rest of us) they wrote findings down. Even ooga booga language would become sophisticated after including enough particulars into it.
>>509758550The improbable mutations took place before what we're even talking about, development of civilization is a different argument entirely. Of which I think is also bullshit, but hey the dark ages did steal a few hundred years out of that equation.
>>509758989>Forgive the clickbait, bit there are ideas that have been subject of research.That's a pretty interesting theory actually. I do see your point, though a similar example which lends an advantage to nerve changes isn't something I can yet think of. But sure, perhaps the environment can be rigged to mutate certain things faster.
>Epigenetics is not Lamarckism. The changes resulting from the epigenome are typically unrelated to the trigger that caused themI was being extremely obtuse and vague about things, yes I know there are different terms but my general point was meant to be that decisions within your lifetime that affect your genetic expression can affect future generations. So "le giraffe reaching for higher branches to grow its neck" isn't too impossible. Likewise, perhaps our ancestors got very very high and changed their neurochemistry and over time these changes with repeated exposure carried over. Just floating ideas out there, not saying it's the case.
>Leaps in human advancement are usually brought about by one discovery toppling dominoes. Yet agriculture and some other early (and later) inventions seemed to develop independently across different places. At around the same time. By coincidence surely. idk, you're not wrong but I guess I just have too much faith in humanity to think they wallowed in mud for 200,000 years doing nothing.
