For millennia, human society has struggled with what to do with young men's violent tendencies.
For millennia man has been changing the landscape, hacking and burning forests and ploughing up grasslands.
For millennia, humans have thrived using the most basic and readily accessible forms of energy.
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For millennia, such clues are almost all that the linguistic historian has to go on.
Mysterious and beautiful, the Moon has been a source of awe and inspiration to mankind for millennia.
For millennia, people have had little option but to accept a reality that was imposed upon them externally.
For millennia, progress in infrastructure came from the more effective movement of the commerce in goods and services.
And even then the sea level will continue to rise, perhaps for millennia.
But there is something still in use in the marketplace today that humans used for millennia before money: barter.
Of course, even before hating Stroheim was popular, audiences had been looking forward to booing the bad guys for millennia.
In this respect, buying and selling is now most effective when it resembles bartering, which humans have been doing for millennia.
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About 5% of the genome in both humans and mice has changed little for millennia, and about half of that 5%is noncoding.
The handshake has been a standard part of social etiquette for millennia.
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Do we want similar roles for everyone, or to perpetuate the differing but complementary roles between the sexes that has characterised society for millennia.
For millennia, the candle has cast light on man's progress as it also helped drive it, allowing us to extend our productive hours beyond sundown.
The dunes' slopes will quickly return to what they have been for millennia: soft, silent, unmarked -- ready to dwarf and astonish the next day's visitors.
Ale is how beer was made for millennia--natural yeasts in the air attacked the blend of water, hops and malted barley and started the fermentation process.
Today, areas such as sub-Saharan Africa that have hosted human life for millennia still use far more phonemes in their languages than more recently colonized regions do.
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China's thirst for industry and irrigation has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers, some of which hold fossil water that has lain undisturbed for millennia.
For millennia, there have been four basic elements of the relationship between a customer and a business: The product, the buying decision, control of information and word-of-mouth.
For millennia, in societies with recorded history, men have dominated.
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For millennia, knives were essential for hunting and butchering animals.
It seemed to him, though, that Polynesians and Micronesians were one people, united by the vast ocean which he, and they, had crisscrossed for millennia in their tiny boats.
For millennia, the Atlantic Ocean had been a barrier cutting Europe off from the rest of the world, but Europe's new ships effectively shrank the ocean, turning it into a commercial highway.
Price sensitivity has existed for millennia, but in just two decades the Internet has fundamentally changed the notion of scarcity in ways no one from Nero to Henry Ford could have imagined.
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An image search of "Italian piazza" will return pictures of complete streets that have been around for millennia, and still function today as some of the most vibrant public places in the world.
Collective fundraising efforts have existed for millennia - membership models for 17th Century book printing, public subscriptions to fund UK parks in the 19th Century, and collective financing of Bollywood films in the 1970s.
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