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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Food. Locusts will tear a crop to the ground and move on.

As omnivores, we have a wider range of food resources, but until we started agriculture (and selectively modifying crops to our tastes and needs) we simply had to move on to find more.

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