Activation energy as a loose analog to evolutionary obstacles

(wiki-TODO: There is a paper on this topic. Find it and add a reference here.)

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)
• ...