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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This is kind of a mystery. Humans (meaning people we could mate with and produce viable offspring) have been around for an estimated 150,000 years. But apparently it only takes around 6000 years to go from a basic agrarian society to sending robots to Mars.
So there has been time for humans to have developed into advanced societies and fallen many times over, but we see no evidence of that in the fossil record.
In order to transition from agrarian to industrial you need food, fossil fuels, and steel. You can’t really make a useful steam engine without steel. If your society doesn’t have those things then you either trade for them or you remain agrarian.
One thing we know, is that as society’s become more advanced it requires more cooperation. Your phone is made from minerals mined in several different countries, the chips were made in tiawan on machines made in the Netherlands, the whole thing was assembled in China and it was designed in the United States. So it’s very hard to have advanced technology without free international trade. International trade is very slow and inefficient with wooden sailboats.
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