Oh for goodness' sake, I thought we could have a serious conversation on here without sinking into hyper-PC socio-semantic wankery. Yes, I think lizards are more primitive than people (and I apologise wholeheartedly to any lizards who are reading this and may feel offended); for what it's worth, I also think a society of (for example) forest-dwelling Borneo tribespeople is more primitve than that of a developed Western country. I'm not attaching a value judgement to the words 'primitive' and 'developed', so if you want to do that, it's up to you, but it reflects on your prejudices, not mine. For one thing, there's nothing inherently primitive about the people themselves, in that if you swapped babies from Britain and Borneo, each would grow up in its adoptive culture like a 'native'.
In that people in tribal cultures have lives that are much more at the mercy of the natural world (the weather/climate, food abundances, predation and disease, etc.), live in extended family groups and very little in the way of technology and complex virtual social constructs like nations and economies, they are closer to living in a (non-human) animal-like state than the average city-dweller.
