Re: US Presidents; an outside view WAS: Any comments? (Evolution - was Answers to Pete)

Consider the use of a stick as a crutch in order to keep weight off a
twisted ankle so that a hunter might heal and be able to supply the tribe
with food.

Which may also be done without the stick, by sitting on a rock, or the
ground.

Being able to see a stick in this manner adds value to it

It doesn't add value to the stick. It's still just a stick. Putting
padding on the end and a rubber tip on it may add value, using it does
not add value.

makes it useful to both the individual and the society; are you saying
that the first person who saw that this could be done consumed enough
resources to use up any gain this added function has ever given the
species?

It isn't the stick that gave the added function, it is just a stick, it
is the brain that used the resource in a novel way.

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