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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Civilizations are an emergent phenomena. Civilizations are complex societies characterized by development of the state, social stratification, urbanization, currency, and symbolic systems of communication.
Each of these qualities develops in response to a society’s prevailing need. No one creates a civilization; it is the sum of a society’s activity. Only in view of a society’s historic progression does its status as a civilization become apparent.
So the direct answer to your question is that no one “needed” the elements of a civilization until when these were discovered and implemented.
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