How the extinction of Ice Age mammals may have forced humans to invent civilization
Friday, January 3, 2020 - 10:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
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.