@raprap,
That's bugger all rap rap. I can run a book for a bookie in the last two minutes of a rush when the dogs are being put into the traps. Try that sometime with real money. 8 races a night and 3 or 4 nights a week.
That stuff is simple and relies upon being able to read a language not many others have had the time nor the inclination to familiarise themselves with. It doesn't sing like Latin though. You need rap music to do it and being the romantic that I am I find that intolerable on the ear. On the few occasions I have steeled my nerves to try it I could only decipher a few words and if the rest as as stupid as those were gawd help rap fans.
We needn't know that this internet uses the binomial. We have technicians behind the scene who translate what we write into that system for efficient transmission and then translate it back so that we all understand what each of us has said. If we bothered about that stuff we would be thinking about how a brainwave caused a movement in the larynx which set up some frequencies in the air which when entering a listener's ear caused the eardrum to vibrate and send the thought up to the receptor.
For an explanation of what caused the brainwave one might say that the brainwave was "I wouldn't mind giving this one one" causing the larynx to say "Do you come here often my dear? which the receptor translates it into "This bozo wants to shag me."
Now, as you know, the criteria for such a brainwave varies from culture to culture. A flat nose. An enormous bottom. Unseen promise. Cushions strapped to the back. Fantastic finger tip control. So what makes us have that brainwave for the unknown Christian bimbo sat on the barstool as a confection of fragrant powders, frilly lace and flesh discreetly paraded. Science couldn't do that because it's the same for all cultures.
There was a tribe down, or up, the Amazon which used base 20 because they didn't wear shoes.
I don't consider Darwin to have had an open mind. Not by a long shot. I don't know much about Wallace. It seems that there were a large number of occasions when Darwin was so single-minded that he couldn't take the welfare of his dearest Emma into account. So you can understand that his single-minded research, simple by today's standards, wasn't about to bother about the effects of it on society.