Why did we take so long to invent civilization? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But initial steps towards civilization--harvesting, then domestication of crop plants--began only around 10,000 years ago, with the first civilizations appearing 6,400 years ago. For 95 percent of our species' history, we didn't farm, create large […]
How the Extinction of Ice Age Mammals May Have Forced Us to Invent Civilization
Singularity Hub - 29 Dec 2021 16:00
Why did we take so long to invent civilization? Modern Homo sapiens first evolved roughly 250,000 to 350,000 years ago. But initial steps towards civilization--harvesting, then domestication of crop plants--began only around 10,000 years ago, with the first civilizations appearing 6,400 years ago. For 95 percent of our species' history, we didn't farm, create large […]
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