Eli5 why did humans take so long to create civilizations?

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I understand that it took quite a few million years for humans to accommodate to their environment, but why did apes for example stay the same approximately while we had all the advancement. For example why are we into philosophy, writing manifestos, infrastructure, complex design, technology etc while apes aren’t exactly.
Why did it take us 6 million years of hunting to think about farming?

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Around 12,000 years ago, the Neolithic Revolution marked the development of agriculture.

Agriculture really kicked off our evolution into society. Once we figured out how to grow our own food and breed our own animals, why continue moving around? Why not build a farm, and then a town and a city?

Interestingly, about 13,000 to 11,500 years ago, the younger dryas occurred. Following this global climate event, global temperatures suddenly stopped fluctuating for the first time in 100,000 years. And those stable temperatures are still with us today (well, maybe not since the 1900s).

The great thing about stable global temperatures? Predictable seasonal changes. It means we can plant food with confidence, and we can get better and better at it every year. I think it’s likely agriculture wasn’t that feasible in the long-term before this time.

What caused this global climate event that allowed civilisation to emerge? Theories differ, but I can’t rule out that our ancient alien overlords simply decided it was about time we got into farming

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