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The ice ages came and the ice ages went. For more than a
half-million years Homo sapiens endured the changing climate by adapting. Then,
deep in the frozen expanse of the last global big chill, something new
happened. We woke up to ourselves in a new way.
We became self-conscious, creating art, culture and tools of
far greater complexity than anything that had come before. When the ice pulled
back yet again, we eventually took a step of even greater consequence. We
domesticated ourselves and put the Earth to the plow.
With agriculture came surplus and with surplus came new
social arrangements. Eventually, we built cities and far-ranging empires to
support them. Human beings began building civilization. In doing so we set
ourselves and the entire planet onto a new trajectory. (Read further: Source)
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