My read of this technology innovator predisposition toward flight, rather than fight, is rooted in the critical threshold of cognitive competence reached in the Chimpanzee-Human Last Common Ancestor, at which gangs of males became an important selective advantage. Prior to that, individual competence was paramount. So with this additional cognitive competence, there is a divergence that is still playing out between the individual’s ability to innovate and thereby escape being beaten to a pulp by a gang, by expanding the ecological range of the species, and the gang’s ability to catch up to the innovator and beat him to a pulp.
Sticks, rocks, knapping, firemaking, fire hardening (possibly apocryphal in the case of sticks), atlatl, wolf domestication, bow and arrow, agriculture, horse domestication, copper, tin/bronze and especially iron with its ubiquitous bog sources, all of which could have been invented by an individual and passed on to his sons to attract mates from the “woke centers” left behind.
That’s a lot of filters, folks.
Then there came The New World…
Understanding the nature of individuality – its strengths and weaknesses as compared to The Serpent:
…is the key to any organized resistance.