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There is still quite a difference between 5000 years and 25 years. Especially because in the pre-modern world, generations were much shorter than today. People
by inglor_cz 5y ago
There is still quite a difference between 5000 years and 25 years. Especially because in the pre-modern world, generations were much shorter than today. People would start having kids around 18.
- robbedpeter 5y ago14 or 15, often. 18 year old adults is a recent liberal human rights innovation. There's not a whole lot of difference between humans now and humans 100,000 years ago. We have better tools and culture and knowledge, but we're physically identical - swap a baby in either direction and nobody would know the difference.