but for hunting purposes, it has no downside

progress is usually dependent of geographic factors , access to resources , ie.ores , trade routes to diseminate information and excess time and resources to give time to experiment and develop ideas. Aboriginal Australians never developed the wheel , there was no need or purpose yet many become fabulous egineers , mechanics, doctors, etc with modern education. I really think we should not damn certain populations due to their historical position when it came to industrial complexity , its a bit of a rascist myth.

​@@farnarkleboy Regarding natural resources: "Currently, Australia has the world’s largest resources of gold, iron ore, lead, nickel, rutile, uranium, zinc and zircon and the second largest resources of brown coal, cobalt, copper, ilmenite, lithium, silver, tungsten and vanadium." Did many of them really become doctors and engineers, though? "There are less than 400 Indigenous doctors in Australia, which is less than 0.5% of the more than 100,000 doctors registered to practice in Australia. However, Indigenous Australians make up three per cent of the population" -and that's with laws that mandate preferential admission to post secondary and preferential hiring, and massive grant funding to back them. "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people represent 3% of the Australian population, but just 0.5% of total engineering students. We need to work together to improve these statistics to address reconciliation, increase the diversity of inputs in the engineering profession and open our eyes to different knowledge systems and perspectives." -Good luck with the 'different knowledge systems' building your bridges. Look at how that's going in South Africa, where universities were torched because they couldn't explain how the shamans called down the lightning! #ScienceMustFall Australia is known for it's diversity of animals, but none of them were domesticated!? Even the Greenland Inuit had dog sleds 4,000-5,000 years ago, which also hearkens back to the access to trade routes. For as remote as Australia is, it pales compared to Greenland. And while the Inuit have a good excuse to have not developed agriculture, 55% of Australia is now used as agricultural land, speaking to the suitability of the climate which was just never used.

bloke with fancy stick vs the world