Why did it take humanity so long to make the wheel?

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It seems so ordinary and simple, but it took early humans a long time to figure out the wheel from what I’ve heard and I can’t understand why.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Inventions are the intersectionality of constraining factors and opportunity.

Until we had a sufficiently large group and/or society that needed the efficiencies that the wheel could offer to support the constraints of a larger society, plus the conveniences of society for someone to stop long enough and think about the problem without worrying about getting ganked or starving.

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