Short Essay: The Human Way Of Life

Humans today have life very easy. An average person lives in an apartment, works a nine-to-five job, survives on junk food and seldom cooks, and drives a modest car. It has not always been like this and we do not know how life became so convenient. Apartments and houses were not always there; in fact early humans lived in caves. Unlike us, they had to go out looking for food on a daily basis.
The human way of living has changed from what it was “12,000 years ago” . Humans used to have “a precarious journey through a hostile world in an unceasing search for food” .Gone are the days when we, as humans, had to move seasonally for food and be hunter gatherers. Humans have changed from being hunter gatherers to being herdsmen. This was a major point in human history.
The transition however,

With early humans, diseases did not spread much because they moved in small groups and they would die off before the disease spread to other groups. In modern age, diseases are a part of society. We live with them and are constantly trying to avoid being infected. A modern day example is the Ebola outbreak in West Africa where a large number of people died of the disease. The disease is not new, it is just that in the past people would get infected and die before it spreads to other people or regions. There was an outbreak because there are groups of people living in one area, who constantly move around and are in contact with more people, allowing for the disease to spread.
We have to be grateful to the domestication of plants and how its practices have resulted in modern day medicines. Plants were always used for medicinal purposes but they have advanced to a level where almost any disease can be healed. Fluids are taken from plants and mixed to create a potion which can be bought over the counter to heal yourself. These remedies are not only available as syrup but also as tablets, injections and