I went digging a bit more, and for example Yuval Harari in Sapiens suggests it’s something he calls the “cognitive revolution”, likely a genetic change about 100,000 years ago distinguished modern humans, who then “took over the world”.
I went digging a bit more, and for example Yuval Harari in Sapiens suggests it’s something he calls the “cognitive revolution”, likely a genetic change about 100,000 years ago distinguished modern humans, who then “took over the world”.