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Originally Posted by seamonster
LOL. That was twelve thousand years ago. Twelve thousand years ago the average human is trying not to starve to death and hunting game with sticks and Egypt was a hundred or so years separated from being a tropical savanna.
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Then - like now - the 'average human' meant ****-all in the grand scheme of things.
Nobody gives a shit what the average human was doing back then. Average humans don't drive this stuff.
The question is the human capacity for greatness and I think it existed then as much as it exists now.
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Doesn't compute in my brain that hunter gatherers infected with parasites and unable to grow crops could build eighteen foot tall stone support columns.
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I direct you to my comment above.