The more you study people from thousands of years ago the more you realize they were exactly the same as we are now, just in a different environment.
You can learn a lot about people that way.
You can learn a lot about people that way.
And that seems like a good reason to study history too, to learn about people who thought very differently from us. It's interesting!
Yes, maybe that's an argument that psychology or social science students should study more historical philosophy (or to be pedantic, history only)?
This is more than you think. Humans not only evolve through evolution, but also culture. We're able to change culture quickly and it has a huge impact on our being. Culture responses very sensible to the environment. So even though there was not much time for evolution, we 'evolved' quite a bit and might be more different that one might think.
As I said, culture can change quickly. This applies for all directions, so maybe we actually are very similar. Who knows.
[I used 'evolution' as how we use the word in day to day usage. The term 'culture' might be involved in 'evolution']