Unless by “gobal” you mean “local”, I don’t see why this statement would hold? Land animals never invented the wheel even where wheeling is more efficient than walking (like steppes and non-sandy deserts). Same with catalytic coal burning for energy (or other easily accessible energy-dense fossil fuel consumption). Both would give extreme advantages in speed and endurance. There are probably tons of other examples, like direct brain-to-brain communication by linking nerve cells instead of miming and vocalizing.
Unless by “gobal” you mean “local”, I don’t see why this statement would hold? Land animals never invented the wheel even where wheeling is more efficient than walking (like steppes and non-sandy deserts). Same with catalytic coal burning for energy (or other easily accessible energy-dense fossil fuel consumption). Both would give extreme advantages in speed and endurance. There are probably tons of other examples, like direct brain-to-brain communication by linking nerve cells instead of miming and vocalizing.