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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I’d suggest reading “Sapiens” by Yuval Harari. Some of it is considered inaccurate, but it’s a very easy to understand read on how civilization (probably) came to be
As to your question about what took humans so long, you have to start at the point where we had evolved the right mental tools, which is believed to be roughly 500k years ago
Without the ability to pass down knowledge through writing (eg don’t eat the yellow and green thing with pointy bits), and the sheer amount of time required to slowly migrate around distances between getting wiped out by natural disasters, animals or other humans, it takes time to progress
Hunter gatherer lasted a long time until eventually the right combination of things happened to start taming the land (agriculture), which was probably the start of bigger groups of people staying in one place
Another interesting observation from Sapiens is about the human ability to tell stories / make shit up, which has the affect of tying groups of people together through these shared stories
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