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Evolution of a utensil usually includes not only having pre-dated the use fo the untensil in question, but the replacement of it for common usage.

Not only did western flatware not succeed the use of chopsticks as common utensils in western culture, chopsticks have certainly not been replaced in any culture where they were ever in common use.

To even suggest that chopsticks are archaic, or that european flatware is an evolutionary advance over them, is not only incorrect, but hints of european arrogance.

And before anyone goes there, check your history before you cite the use of spoons or ladels. You will find their first documented use is not in western culture.