Why did it take "homo sapiens" 188,000 years to work out how to sow seed?

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UnderGOD

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Homo Sapiens thought to first exist 195,000 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human#History

Agriculture established 7,000 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture#Ancient_origins


One would think that someone would have thought to do this a little earlier?
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The last Ice-Age is thought to have occurred 20,000 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age
 
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Happykid

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Climate at the time may have had something to do with it. We used to migrate for a number of reasons. When we decided to settle down in one spot could have been determined by food accessability.
 
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idlenessss

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why? agriculture is only necessary when there is a large population, and nothing is intrinsically good about having a large population. the older humans probably had perfectly good lives as semi nomadic hunters following the migrations of their prey and there was absolutely no motivation to make this change to their lifestyle.
anyway the evidence for this is sketchy. there might be evidence of agriculture 7000 years ago, but not evidence that it was the first appearance. Its possible that the sphynx of egypt is older than that...and I doubt that some hunter society could have, or would have, sculpted the sphynx.
 
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PaulB

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Why?

Humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers for most of our evolutionary history (and some societies still are). We didn't adopt agriculture until it became beneficial to our lifestyle.
 
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shazzam

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The Earth is still a plentiful garden .... = I can go outside my door and walk around my block and pick fruit from a custard apple tree and a banana and a coconut tree and even in my very own back yard I can find some food to eat ....
Is travel the answer you are looking for?
Do you eat chocolate because it comes from cocaine or should I say the cocoa plant that the Inca people did trade ...
Nomads = roaming free and "walk-about" is still a word and a deed "Aborigines"...?
Maybe we just cannot see how they did what they did to get a feed?
One would think someone would think to look up a little earlier?
 
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