
Measurements
Patented: History of Inventions
Notches on Bones?
Nior: Notches on sticks is the first tangible evidence we have that humans wanted to quantify nature. Nior says he couldn't find any sort of explanation for why notches were so popular in our evolutionary past. He thinks there are some things, i think, in human history and human science, where actually you come up against something that might just be biologically innate.
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