Evolution versus civilization.?

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How come we were supposed to have developed into modern humans about a million years ago but only developed a recorded civilization less than ten thousand years ago? What happened during the other 990000 years?
I find this difficult to believe because intelligent human beings are inventive and 990,000 years is an awful long time not to invent anything at all.
 
It's more like 200,000 years ago.

Bottom line: technology changed us. Inventions like writing, and the whole shift from hunter-gatherers to farming (which may not have been possible before writing made it possible to preserve knowledge.

But this is really a history / anthropology question; it has nothing to do with religion OR biology.
 
Humans don't start to settle down until they develop agrarianism. Prior to that, settlements have to be small to live off the land - too small to leave a record.

It's also the point at which humans get into monotheism.
 
We gather data exponentially.
It's the way are brains are designed. Though we'd be a bit better of if not for torching the Library of Alexandria and other centers of knowledge.

And he's right, it is only like 200,000 years, not a million.
 
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