I don't think human beings have changed in 2,000 years.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.
I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.
Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
In most, if not quite all, parts of the world, the size, shape and longevity of the human body have changed more substantially, and much more rapidly, during the past three centuries than over many previous millennia.
I do believe that peoples' natures can be changed, and they have to be changed if we want to live in this modern world and be a part of it.
We imagine that human nature doesn't change. We like to say that but I don't think it's true because we have, in the course of the centuries, altered ourselves.