Why do nearly all cultures develop bows and arrows?

Question

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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Answer 1

So long pointy stick is good, throwing long pointy stick is also good.

Some places also used longer sticks to help propel slightly shorter sticks further then you can normaly throw them.
Bow and arrow is just the next advancement in “throwing” pointy sticks further technology.

There have even been ideas floating around about dropping large pointy sticks from Space on people (kinetic bombardement) as a further advancement in pointy stick good technology.