Contemporary people long for the tangible and specific — for soccer fields and peppermint ice cream — not merely as promises of future reward but as a way to emphasize continuity. (religion-online.org)
Races have emerged as a result of the resettlement and environmental isolation of the forerunners of contemporary people in different climatic conditions. (star-writers.com)
In contrast, the social - science approach seeks structural and cultural contexts for personages in the past by studying the actual behavior of contemporary people with similar social structures, values and human types. (religion-online.org)