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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What do you mean by civilization? When we stopped being nomadic and settled down? That depended on the ppl. We tended to follow animals.

As far as the monkey thing, the popular theory is that we were an entirely different species all together. While we share a common ancestor, that ancestor predates us quite a bit. Going really far back.

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