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To say that ‘there are no examples of wheels in in nature’ . . is an observational error / as is / the assertion that the invention of the wheel required ‘abstract thinking at a highly philosophic level.’ . . . preposterous in view of the frequent presence about the earth of tree logs which have been used by man as rolling supports or wide tired wheels, probably to the earliest times of man on earth. The log wheel was the fulcrum of man’s lever-- probably amongst his earliest discoveries, as he stepped on the long end of a big log lying across another log and found himself lifting yet another log on the other end of the lever, which lifted logs he knew to be beyond his ability to lift alone with his arms, back and legs. Every pebbled beach contains rolling stones which are omni-directional wheels, or ‘ball bearings.’ Very few squares or cubes occur in nature-- everywhere nature uses the round wheel sectioned form. . . the presence of the wheel principle in nature. Wheels were, however, probably ‘a flop’ as an invention, for millenniums, becoming successful only after proper lubricants and metals were developed for their axles.
