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[-] Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

Once humans started cooking food and writing stuff down. We progressed rapidly.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago

Actually the biggest factor was most likely the development of language, which probably required certain evolutionary traits in order to be possible. With language, collaboration and cooperation become much easier, which leads to fire and cooking and other ideas like that. You get to writing things down a lot later.

[-] KingGimpicus@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 hours ago

It's about the communication of technology, not the technological advancement itself. Language is a relatively recent human adaptation.

[-] krunklom@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago

The person before you is referencing the speed lf development. It is very likely that humans possessed relatively sophisticated language for the 190k years ebfore civilization happened. Exponential, or at least greatly accelerated, growth seems to really pick up after writtrn language happens in many cases.

theres evidence of cooking by honinid species stretching back well, WELL before homo sapiens arrived on the scene, and plenty of evidence suggesting people like had sophisticated language for that time as well.

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