Evolutionary Evolution - The Origin of Inventions

The telephone Alexander Graham Bell. There was somebody else who came up with a telephone at the same time. You can look at almost any particular invention. It had multiple inventors. And tracing the antecedents of inventions becomes an incredibly challenging task. That's why patent lawyers are their whole discipline. If it was easy, they wouldn't have jobs. But it's really hard and it's really challenging. The same thing is true for biological inventions as it is to technology.