The psychology, history, and nature are in continuous change, and it is necessary to understand the approach that our hunter-gatherer ancestors had in past. It can be said that “A brief history of Humankind” is the best way to get into the past. In one of its chapter, there is a strong statement that summarizes many things in one line, and that is “our brain and minds were adapted to a life of hunting and gathering.” Many psychologists believe that present day social and psychological characteristics are designed after a long pre-agricultural era. And thus, today the way the human mind works is the result of our hunter-gatherer ancestors (Harari 41).
One of the best examples to further prove or understand this point is that from past till now we are hunting for our food, but the methods of hunting food and other purposes are almost changed. The eating habits are entirely changed it was not easy to store the food in past, but now it is possible. Moreover, consumption of high-calorie food is also increasing, and it is leading this generation towards obesity and many other diseases (Harari 41). People do anything to the eat as much as they want and there is no stop to it, and this thing is to develop from past that we started storing food in refrigerators as well as in our stomach. It means that we have become good gatherer too.
Similarly, it is documented that among animals our closest relatives were the chimpanzees and bonobos. However, the present situation is different now pet animals are mostly dogs, cats, and birds. One of the examples can be taken from this book in which 12,000-year-old tomb found a skeleton of women with a skeleton of a puppy (Harari 47). It indicates that human and dog connection is also old, and people from the past also kept the dog as their pet. And now chimpanzees are kept in cages and zoos or totally away from humans because humans become hunter, and the chimpanzees and bonobos need security from humans.
Work Cited
Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. New York: HarperCollins, 2015. Print.
