Mankind’s Greatest Achievement

[Grangerous]

Tits, Tires and Tobacco.

 

[NomadOrb]

The wheel was quite revolutionary.

 

[rajangan]

Comedy.

 

[Brendan]

Have to give credit to my wife’s parents for that one.

 

[johnnyreb]

Germ theory and hand soap

And what they used to call crapping papers, Single sheets in a box.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

The orgasm! Without it, where would we all be?

 

[JOHN72]

Technology in Human Improvement of quality of life, in general.

 

[Mike D]

Sliced Bread

 

[mso489]

Maybe brain size and activity which has given rise to human cultures and may end all life on earth. The first part is the achievement.

 

[jpmcwjr]

The fact that we haven't yet wiped ourselves out through war or famine or pestilence.

Then, the transistor.

 

[prairiedruid]

Agriculture; the ability to produce surplus amounts of food allowed some members of society to be free to do "other things" such as metal working, trade, and science. It also led to lawyers so it does have some drawbacks.

 

[sumusfumus]

Man's greatest achievement.......when Man finally realized he was not and never will be God. Just ask Adam. He'll tell you all about it, if Eve can keep her nagging mouth shut, and not interrupt.

 

[Sweet Home Alabama]

Rightly tighty, left loosey.

 

[karam]

Terrific book from Lord Robert Winston called Bad Ideas goes over all critical human discoveries, and their good and bad aspects.

 

[warren]

Terrific book from Lord Robert Winston called Bad Ideas goes over all critical human discoveries, and their good and bad aspects.

Thank you kindly for that!

 

[mortonbriar]

Terrific book from Lord Robert Winston called Bad Ideas goes over all critical human discoveries, and their good and bad aspects.

I will check this out too!

My book around this topic (I hesitate to say 'recommend' because I imagine it gets polarizing reviews, I very much connected with it though) is The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self by Charles Eisenstein.

 

[jpberg]

Air conditioning. It allowed us to build straight up.

 

[Akousticplyr]

Achieving sentience.

 

[crawdad]

Putting man on the moon

 

[FurCoat]

The Declaration of Independence

The Constitution of the United States of America