Our ancestors' relationships likely didn't look like present-day monogamy, but their lives were also significantly different than ours.
Like present-day New York, Edo (now Tokyo) was the center of commerce and trade.
After the battle, Mosley, like present-day Fascists, was able to cast himself in the role of a law-abiding victim assaulted by immigrant hordes.
"Iphigenia 2.0" takes place in Greece, but it's less like the Greece of the Persian wars than like present-day Iraq and Afghanistan.
Shakespeare belonged to us as much as to anyone: the playwright's England, like present-day America, was "a kid of a country," as Welles wrote in his introduction, "bounding blithely into the sunny, early morning of modern times".
Still, the unmistakable signal they send is that H. sapiens, in the sense of a creature that looked just like present-day human beings in its essential bony attributes, did not exist in Africa before about 160 kya.
Much like present-day City, the Chelsea squad of the mid-naughts seemed unbreakable, with its Russian oligarch owner, Roman Abramovich, paying record sums to bring in players that wreaked havoc, snatching the championship title from United for two years running.
A warming of the global climate is likely to have substantial consequences -- for better and worse -- around the United States in coming decades, including bumper crops in the heartland, chronic erosion of coasts, summer water shortages and winter floods in the West and a future New York City that steams in summer like present-day Atlanta.
Now for the sex: Like present-day Europeans and Asians, the Ust-Ishim man has about 2% Neandertal DNA.
