I think understand that the concept of a pointy thing on a long stick is universal, hence spears, but how did almost every culture, even isolated ones, think to develop bows and arrows? We see these from Europe to Africa to Asia to the Americas and even the Sentinelese, so what gives?
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Give some kids anything slightly elastic like a rubber band or even just a ruler and they’ll come up with some kind of slingshot or catapult in few hours.
Noticing that twigs are elastic is pretty easy, you move a twig that is in your way and it ends up blasting the face of the dude behind you. From that you make a sort of catapult just for fun, like kids, then given enough time you would end up with a bow.
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