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Invention

What is the greatest human invention/discovery


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Tools, without tools none of those other things could exist.

Fire is more of a discovery. Considering the nature of nature (;)), man would have discovered fire regardless of what tools they had.
 
Yes but how would man make more fire, if not for tools. ;)

Why would he need to make those tools? Because he discovered fire.

I agree tools are definitely important for civilization, but most of what we have today is a result of our response to seeing fire. Although there were probably many other things that tools served as before fire was used (like hunting, physical activites, etc.).
 
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Why would he need to make those tools? Because he discovered fire.

I agree tools are definitely important for civilization, but most of what we have today is a result of our response to seeing fire. Although there were probably many other things that tools served as before fire was used (like hunting, physical activites, etc.).

Maybe yes and maybe no.

To recreate that fire early man needed to either catch it and save it or be able to reproduce it without the "sparks from heaven."

I'm not diminishing fire as important because it is major, our stomachs have adapted to eat cooked food.
In all though, without basic tools fire would be something sometimes seen but not necessarily useful.
 
Newsflash,...

Fire was not invnted.... (note our Sun for example)

Fire (like, water, ice and shiny rocks) falls under the category of "discovery."
That's what the list says, invention or discovery.
 
no, because inventions are a result of doing something, it was evolution that equipped us to speak, and there is a language gene in the human genome
And it was evolution which equipped us to "do something" whatever that something may be. My point initially was that inventions are not spontaneous occurances or ideas that generate out of thin air. Rather they arise as a result of changing material conditions and historical forces.
 
Symbolic representation. (language, writing, arithmetic)

This is actually probably one of the tops. It's a remarkable ability. Science, music, math, philosophy; these are all great human inventions.
 
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