Dear S.A.,
Is it inevitable that each individual "invent the wheel", or are any specifics of acquired knowledge & skills of progenitors transmitted to offspring at conception?
- Curious

Dear Curious, The key to answering your question relies on the very concept of "inventing the wheel."

Humans can invent the wheel.

Dogs cannot.

The mechanisms for survival of a species require, in the main, one or another approach. Either a species is static, responding only slowly to environmental changes, and all required info for continued survival of the species may be genetically transmitted; or a species is not static, and (beyond core minimal functions such as 'breathe') the ability to "invent the wheel" is the extent of what is genetically transmitted. Hence the lament "We only truly learn things the hard way."

Paradoxically, this inevitability provides for free will. Ψ