If humans have been in our current form for 250,000 years, why did it take so long for us to progress yet once it began it’s in hyperspeed?

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We went from no human flight to landing on the moon in under 100 years. I’m personally overwhelmed at how fast technology is moving, it’s hard to keep up. However for 240,000+ years we just rolled around in the dirt hunting and gathering without even figuring out the wheel?

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I often wondered the same thing. Then I had a child. I can 100% say that pre modern times with houses and steady food supplies etc, keeping a child alive must have been absolutely brutal back then. Add in the fact that a lot of women and children died during and after birth, and that’s one piece of the puzzle