Wheel and Circle

Rudimentary Human tools reflect a continuity with zoological ancestry, e. g. digging implements and claws.  But, as Marx-Engels observe, the tool per se is a novel development.  Thus, the exemplary Human invention qua invention is the wheel, which has no zoological ancestor.  Now, implicit in Platonism, including its Aristotelian variation, is that the novelty of the wheel signifies an origin of the Human species different from zoological ascent, namely a descent from some perfect realm.  For, on that account, the wheel is an application of what for Plato is an eternal Form, and for Aristotle is the essence of perfection--the Circle.  However, as has been previously discussed, the novelty of a thumb that can easily touch fingertips can explain not only the Human discovery of the Circle but the origin of the concept of Form itself.  So, the wheel might not qualify as the first Human invention, but it is the exemplary expression of both Human inventiveness and Human Evolutionary distinctiveness.