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by mpyne 4418 days ago
It was a separate innovation, followed soon after by a different innovation to combine a claw tool and a hammer tool into a combined tool.

But there are other things you can put on the other end of a hammer besides a claw, none of which made the original hammer a bad idea if all your problems really are nails that you don't need to claw back out.