Did different groups of humans independently discover roughly the same things at about the same time?

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To some extent, yes. Language of course exists wherever humans are—that’s a natural capacity of the human mind. There’s no human society that doesn’t have language. And everyone seems to have discovered fire very early on. However, there were societies without agriculture, writing, or certain technologies. Writing was invented independently in at least three places: China, Egypt, and Mesoamerica, but only in those places. But then the wheel was invented in only one place. And even by the 15th century, no one in the Americas had invented the wheel. One wonders if they ever would have.

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