I Would have to say, The stick, yes the humble stick,
first used by primitive primates to forage insects out of mounds and logs, later to hunt small game, the first tool, the increase in protein led to increases in brain size, and as our brains evolved so did our tools, as time passed primate became man, and invented all we know today, but it all began with but a simple stick.
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I'm sick in the head and I haven't gone to bed
Since I first came ashore from me slumber
For I spent all me dough on the lassies don't you know
Far across the western ocean I must wander
-The Jolly Rogers
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