Change Human Nature

Human nature obviously has evolved through history, but I believe that the instincts that drive us to make decisions in humans are still the same. The main human instinct is to survive, but the way we survive now is different than the way we survived in the past. Yet, it is the same, humans are still very social and need others in order to survive. It is the way we respond and interact with people that has changed over time. Not only did our interaction change but our survival has turned into prospering and a race of who can have the most the fastest. The first earliest known humans lived nearly three million years ago in the Paleolithic Age in East Africa. These first humans learned to hunt and gather food for lack of knowledge of how to farm. It was also this reason that they also traveled frequently looking for food and seeking …show more content…
This is when humans first developed agriculture. With this new information and development humans were able to stay in one place longer than ever before. Humans also were able to make their gatherings lager, with a village consisting up to two hundred people. Agriculture also changed human nature because now they weren’t traveling and had more leisure time for developing new technology and learning new skills. It was during this time period that we get the wheel, the sail, pottery, and the sharpening of stone tools. With all of the new skills, materials, and land humans began to have a sense of property. This is also the first time we see society being broken into social classes. It was in the villages that emerged power and wealth. The idea that those that acquired the most land and possessions had the most power and were elite. With the old hunting bands no member had more property than another due to the amount of travel, so there was equality. Now, with people living in villages we see human nature’s first encounter with the idea of prospering instead of just