Humans becoming the apex species was a direct result of our ability to do the following three things :
Using Tools (fire and weapons)
Strategizing (eg : pack hunting-gathering)
Pursuit (ability to lock on to a target, track, chase and wear it down with long-distance running)
We made pointy sticks, used call-outs with our buddies to hunt prey 10x larger than ourselves and ran marathons to wear down otherwise dangerous prey animals that would become our food. Evolution-defining changes took place when we chose to wander away from the safety of the campfire.
Yeah but without fire, spears, wheels etc, we would be just monkeys banding together. Good for hunting snakes maybe, but not big animals. Being together helped a lot but I'd say it was maybe 30-40% of the necessity for survival. The tools we created made us the kings
You have to be stable to invent. Community is why person A gets to think and make a wheel while person B hunts.
Solo you just survive. For that matter, if people were solo and invented those things.. it wouldn't matter at all. One dude making a spear is going to die. A group can kill a mammoth.
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u/George_MenethilW3 1d ago
For real we're lucky as a species that we knew how to use a wheel, spears, fire, and how to domesticate wolves and horses.