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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> why did apes for example stay the same approximately while we had all the advancement

Well, we are apes, so clearly apes did have advancement.

But our key evolutionary advantage is intelligence, more so than any other animal, which is why humans invented agriculture. Increasing the food supply allowed our species to thrive.

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