Yes, humans have been around for 300,000 years and only in the last 10,000 years human crossed that tipping point to be able to think higher order things.
Do you have any evidence for this claim? Just because people didn’t start agriculture doesn’t mean they weren’t as smart as people today. Hell, 300000 years is nothing from an evolutionary perspective, they were for all practical purposes genetically identical.
It was just most probably a nurture thing — there was not as much accumulated knowledge to “bootstrap” a more advanced civilization (or perhaps, no will to do so. Why change when your system works just fine?). It’s not like Einstein could have achieved much back then without “standing on the shoulder of giants” before him.
It was just most probably a nurture thing — there was not as much accumulated knowledge to “bootstrap” a more advanced civilization (or perhaps, no will to do so. Why change when your system works just fine?). It’s not like Einstein could have achieved much back then without “standing on the shoulder of giants” before him.