Everything changes. What does not change? Only that these people, like us, are human, and have urges, needs and challenges, and that these are continually shifting. If we really want to understand what humanity is, and how adaptable we are, we must see ourselves as a constantly living, evolving race – always on the very cusp of a vast and unimaginable future, whether we live in the fourteenth century or the twenty-first – and in no way dead until the whitened bones of the last human being lie abandoned on the sand.
