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The more you study people from thousands of years ago the more you realize they were exactly the same as we are now, just in a different environment. You can l

• WHA8m 4y ago
  > just in a different environment This is more than you think. Humans not only evolve through evolution, but also culture. We're able to change culture quickly and it has a huge impact on our being. Culture responses very sensible to the environment. So even though there was not much time for evolution, we 'evolved' quite a bit and might be more different that one might think. As I said, culture can change quickly. This applies for all directions, so maybe we actually are very similar. Who knows. [I used 'evolution' as how we use the word in day to day usage. The term 'culture' might be involved in 'evolution']
  • brightball 4y ago
    In most of what I have seen, human nature has been very consistent over the years.
• skybrian 4y ago
  Exactly the same, except for all the ways it was profoundly different. And that seems like a good reason to study history too, to learn about people who thought very differently from us. It's interesting!
• hnfong 4y ago
  > You can learn a lot about people that way. Yes, maybe that's an argument that psychology or social science students should study more historical philosophy (or to be pedantic, history only)?