Activation energy as a loose analog to evolutionary obstacles
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Related
- Evolution – Natural selection
Nature not being capable of evolving gem-gum techmology because of:
- lack of higher thought and targeted planning
- being condemned (at least to a degree) to incremental setps of improvement
Things that life as we know it was not (and probably in not) capable of evolving:
- copper wires and superconductors
- The combo of streets and macroscale wheels
- rocket engines (chemical and ion)
- ...
