Why has human civilization advanced so quickly for the past 10,000 years?

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Human civilization begins more than 10,000 years ago. And during these past 10 millennia, the knowledge and civilization of humans explodes rapidly. And fast pace techology started just over hundred years ago and explodes rapidly.

This is not the case with nonhuman primates and animals that evolved for millions of years and yet they don't get a whole lot smarter, and they don't create technology.
 
Has it? I mean, compared to what other civilizations that we can use as benchmarks?
 
All our technological advances are rooted in our ability to control fire. While fire "may" have led to the use of complicated language it definitely led to the working of metals & manufacturing of almost everything in use today.
Now to the meat of your question, the ability to write down information that could be passed down to future generations kept technical advances alive long after their inventors and those that understood these advances died. Moreover, educating citizens in the ability to read & write made the information available to a larger percentage of the population so that improvements could be made. The printing press accelerated the dissemination of information and served as an information multiplier.
 
Animals evolve because they must, due to natural changes, etc.

The reason for the 'technology boom' is simple: Every invention spawns an invention. Everything builds off of something before.
 
Many experts believe we are in an interglacial period and the withdrawal of the glaciers stabilized the weather and owned agriculture to develop.
 
That is when the last Glacial Maximum subsided, and coincidentally, when Farming was invented. This led to the emergence of cities!
 
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