apologies for the multiple posts, I should have thought it all through properly and stuck it in one!

"evolutionaryly (can't be bothered to look up the spelling - <i>me neither!</i>) we will have changed little"

This may well be true, I'm not scientifically minded enough to be able to say. It seems a little irrelevant, though? Please enlighten me if I'm being ignorant, but the psychology of a people can change radically without any need to invoke Darwin, surely?