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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It took 200,000+ years to develop farming, even as anatomically modern homo sapiens, big brain and all.
The key to everything we have done is ***Collective Learning***: passing on information verbally at first, then as pictures and symbols, then as writing, and now as digital code. This is how we literally transcend death and learn more than any one person could in a lifetime.
Like all such complex systems, laying the foundation takes a long time, then it accelerates exponentially.
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