• Question: what was the first thing discovered by our ancestors?

    Asked by nisha99 to Adam, Geoff, Rob, Sheila, Suzie on 21 Mar 2011 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Suzie Sheehy

      Suzie Sheehy answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      Food, I imagine. They would have had to discover that fairly quickly to survive 😉

    • Photo: Adam Tuff

      Adam Tuff answered on 18 Mar 2011:

      It could have been anything! I don’t think there’s any way to know.

    • Photo: Sheila Kanani

      Sheila Kanani answered on 20 Mar 2011:

      Interesting question! I have no idea. I guess it was something like that we are alive, and that the Sun rises and sets, or something else obvious like that. Our ancestors did like astronomy and numbers though. Apparently in India they created zero 3000 years ago, and the Greeks knew “pi” to two digits!

    • Photo: Robert Simpson

      Robert Simpson answered on 21 Mar 2011:

      If you’re asking about when science began – it has always been going on. There is no point in human history when people weren’t trying to figure things out.

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