Human Quote by Robyn Davidson

“Earlier than about 10,000 years ago, all human populations were hunter gatherers. Soon, probably none will be. Those not extinct will be 'civilised' —…

— Richard Dawkins

Human beings were human beings anatomically for several hundred thousand years, wandering around, hunting and gathering. And then suddenly, at the same time they…

— Howard Rheingold

Paleoclimatic records show clearly that the past 10,000 years, the Holocene, is a remarkably stable period in which we went from being a few…

— Johan Rockstrom

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

— Howard Rheingold

“It’s important to keep in mind that when viewed against the full scale of our species’ existence, ten thousand years is but a brief…

— Christopher Ryan

It was 100,000 years before we figured out what to do with fire. Imagine cavemen, sitting in front of a fire, eating raw meat…

— Julian Casablancas

Pre-history tells us that our species used to be a hunter-gatherer society. This means that the job of raising a family was split 50-50…

— W. Bruce Cameron

Anatomically modern humans are found up to 200,000 years ago; behaviourally modern humans appear very recently in evolutionary time, as far as evidence now…

— Noam Chomsky

Most of what we think of as distinctively human has occurred in the last 10,000 years in the Holocene - a period in which…

— Dale Jamieson

“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of chemistry. 4.5…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Our genus, Homo, arose two and a half million years ago, and for more than ninety-nine percent of human existence, we all lived like…

— Michael Finkel

“The earliest evidence that has been found of complex societies comes from Mesopotamia – modern-day Iraq and Syria – in around 3500 BC.”

— Christopher Lascelles