Disproportionate emphasis on instances of invention, such as the emergence of potter’s wheels circa 4500 BCE, contributes to a pro-innovation bias that studies of the history of technology. More attention to technological discontinuance (e.g., the loss of various hunting and fishing implements in Tasmania over thousands of years) is thus a necessary corrective to the dominant view that innovations are steadily and inevitably adopted.
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hardWhich choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
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supersedes
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pervades
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abridges
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foments