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Most of what we understand as science has occurred within the last couple hundred years which is is a tiny interval out of the period that Homo Sapiens alone has been on the planet. Asking why science happened mostly over here, but not over there, seems pointlessly akin to asking, why did the column of effervescence start in this spot on the champagne glass, and not this other spot over here.


> Asking why science happened mostly over here, but not over there, seems pointlessly akin to asking, why did the column of effervescence start in this spot on the champagne glass, and not this other spot over here.

But that question is both interesting and significant. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleation for the phenomenon, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superheating for an immediate consequence. In the other direction, and with less physically threatening consequences, we get https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercooling




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