[quote]Planting seeds, like who went "yo lemme bury this thing I found and water it every so often and come back and see what happens?"[/quote] Naah... Just had to be observant. The seed sprout anyway under the right conditions. Burying them is simply to protect the seeds from getting eaten by animals. [quote]Cooking, some person went "dang i wanna eat this cow but I can't eat raw meat. I'm so angry I'm gonna light it on fire and OH MY GOD IT TURNED EDIBLE"[/quote] This was probably a happy accident. In the animal world, any kind of meat (a kill) attracts competition. Either predators looking for an easy meal, or scavengers waiting for their turn. Unless you are ready to defend the kill, you won't keep. Something will take it away from you...or kill you and then take it (or you). Fire was probably used as a means to keep them away. At some point some of the meat got accidentally singed.....and they realized that it tasted better, and fewer people got ill from eating it. [quote]Smoking... "ima light this thing on fire and suck in the smoke"[/quote] Again, probably just being observant. To create fire in the wild requires kindling.....in the process of create a fire...someone noticed that certain plants had pleasant effects when you breathed in the smoke that came from burning them.

Or they noticed the weird bits that fell out of the flowers turned into new flowers eventually.

First person to drink milk: imma pull on these dangling thing and drink whatever comes out

[quote]Planting seeds, like who went "yo lemme bury this thing I found and water it every so often and come back and see what happens?"[/quote] I had a history teacher that had an interesting theory about this one. So, in caveman culture, the men go out and hunt and explore and do burly man things that require man muscles, while the women hold down the fort at home, take care of the children and do other housekeeping chores, right? So these women, they're sittin around at home and they've got this little fruit bowl that they went and gathered. And, back in the day, fruit wasn't as dense as it is now because of selective breeding; there were a lot more and bigger seeds with little fruit inside them. The women, whe they eat the fruit, they have to spit out the seeds just wherever, just so they don't choke. Well, months go by and the human tribe eventually comes back to the same camp, only to find out that it's been overgrown with fruit trees. Basically, cavewomen invented farming

Just curiosity and experimenting, really. Sometimes it got our ancestors killed; sometimes it led to breaking discoveries.

I wonder how much less we would have discovered/invented had the the concept of "I dare you to..." never existed.