> Considering we're only 8 generations away from huddling in a village, frightened of the wolves and anything that goes bump in the night. I think you severely

> Considering we're only 8 generations away from huddling in a village, frightened of the wolves and anything that goes bump in the night. I think you severely underestimate our predecessors. They were not feral beasts, they were almost exactly the same animals as you and I, minus some education and technology. 8 generations ago (25? 30 years each?), the Age of Exploration in which western European powers sent huge sailing ships, (more than a hundred feet long with dozens or hundreds of cannons) around the world to map and claim unknown lands was drawing to a close, because they were running out of unknown lands. London was a city of more than half a million people, importing goods from the furthest corners of the empire, with huge textile mills and blast furnaces and other factories ramping up,the industrial revolution. They weren't huddling in the mud and dark, they were sitting around candles and oil lamps, near streets lit with oil from whales they killed. Even 80 generations or more ago the Romans, Greeks, Babylonians and Egyptians were dealing with problems of empire governance not wolf packs. (To say nothing of the Chinese, Japanese, or Mayan civilizations which I know less about.) They may have been superstitious, but they were definitely homo sapiens.