Naturally Recurring Solutions

Carcinization often confuses.

You know how crabs did not evolve from the same genetic lineage, but over and over again, in response to similar environmental niches?

Trees are the same.

Many aspects of culture converge on behavior that follows the function required by the environment.

People often look for a single origin point for the martial arts. Ethno-nationalists of various strains love to claim their nation as the origin.

But look at puppies. Cubs. Kittens.

Many of those techniques and moves are present in them.

Which suggests convergent evolution, in a form that can become cultural.