Comment by slashdev

> I would wager that if you could travel back in time to the emergence of anatomically modern humans, you’d find they’re just like us. I don’t think that’s particularly controversial or surprising, but it’s easy to forget that people who came long before us were really no different from us (or put differently, were no different than them), and it helps to better understand history if you think of them that way.

In many ways no different to us, in other ways, knowledge, cultural norms, gender roles, morality, etc they are very different to us.

We're very tribal and very hostile to people outside of our tribe, and what we consider our tribe has slowly expanded over time.

Thankfully today we mostly don't form up into raiding parties to go kill, rape, and enslave people in the neighboring suburb - but that would have been historically a very normal and acceptable thing to do.