Or would being unable to swim have resulted in boats being invented SOONER?
January 21, 2011 6:12 PM Subscribe
If humans were so physically dense as to make swimming, or even treading, water a complete impossibility would the invention of rafts, canoes and larger boats have been delayed? Would the technological advance of history have been otherwise substantially changed?
This post was deleted for the following reason: this is a bit too out there as a hypothetical. -- jessamyn
Given that there is some scant evidence that Homo Erectus may have been the first to build crude rafts, why assume that swimming preceded boats? Necessity is the mother of invention... maybe we built rafts BECAUSE we couldn't swim...
posted by brownrd at 6:34 PM on January 21, 2011
posted by brownrd at 6:34 PM on January 21, 2011
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posted by facetious at 6:29 PM on January 21, 2011