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Related: the reverse Fermi Paradox.

Essentially, we've been humans for about 200,000 years. But only in the last 5,000ish years have we done the whole civilization thing. Why?

Climate has a lot to do with it, we know that, but about 195,000 years is a lot of time too.

Quite the mystery.



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