<Archeologists find a 500,000 year old hand axe in a quarry in Warwickshire, England.>
Obviously smarter than chimps! Okay, it's not the wheel and far from CDMA, Globalstar, cyberspace, financial and genetic engineering, but it must have made killing things and cutting stuff easier.
Imagine roaming around, wearing animal skins, catching animals, winter coming on and a glaciation imminent. I prefer mod cons. Can you imagine his wife's comments, "When are you going to invent the wheel so I can drive to Harrods to buy that cool new 3G cyberphone I saw on tv? Useless!! Get a real job." Next thing you know, she's joined clever Mr Smith's harem and has the keys to a horse and gig, if not a Rolls Royce.
I can see some evolutionary pressure even way back then.
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