[extropy-chat] HISTORY: Solved & Unsolved Riddles

[Damien Broderick]

> 8) What survival value did our ancestors find
> walking on 2 legs gave them?

Wrecks their backs, which quickly leads to the invention of the walking
stick, the first technology.* The rest is prehistory. (Museum paintings and
dioramas sometimes incorrectly show these primordial tools as clubs.)

Damien Broderick

*cf. the celebrated riddle of Oedipus:# `What goes on four legs at dawn, two
legs at noon, three legs in the evening?'

#yes, I do mean Oedipus Wrecks.