Final answer:
Human civilization with recorded history is only around 10,000 years old, which is a short span compared to the roughly 200,000 years modern humans have been around.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement is false: there is not a recorded history for most of the time that humans have been behaviorally modern. Modern humans have been around for approximately 200,000 years, and civilization as we know it, with recorded history, is about 10,000 years old. For approximately 95 percent of human evolutionary history, our ancestors practiced gathering and hunting, a lifestyle that is not well-documented in historical records. Humans have developed a diversity of cultures and social features through a wide variety of environments, but the bulk of this development is not captured in recorded history. Farming, which marked the dawn of the Early Farming Phase, only began around 12,000 years ago, signifying a shift towards settled societies and the beginnings of recorded history.