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’ve seen it said that we didn’t domesticate wheat, wheat domesticated us.
The cultivation of wheat gave us a ready and reliable food source so that we didn’t have to hunt and gather anymore, so could devote our time and our brains to other things – civilisation.
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