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| taxon = Homo sapiens | | status_system = IUCN3.1-->| taxon = Homo sapiens | ||
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]'']'' <small>White ''et al.'', 2003</small><br /> | |||
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|title=<small>Species synonymy</small><ref name=msw3 /> | |||
|''aethiopicus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''americanus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''arabicus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''aurignacensis''<br><small>Klaatsch & Hauser, 1910</small> | |||
|''australasicus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''cafer''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''capensis''<br><small>Broom, 1917</small> | |||
|''columbicus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''cro-magnonensis''<br><small>Gregory, 1921</small> | |||
|''drennani''<br><small>Kleinschmidt, 1931</small> | |||
|''eurafricanus''<br><small>(Sergi, 1911)</small> | |||
|''grimaldiensis''<br><small>Gregory, 1921</small> | |||
|''grimaldii''<br><small>Lapouge, 1906</small> | |||
|''hottentotus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''hyperboreus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''indicus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''japeticus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''melaninus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''monstrosus''<br><small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> | |||
|''neptunianus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''palestinus''<br><small>McCown & Keith, 1932</small> | |||
|''patagonus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''priscus''<br><small>Lapouge, 1899</small> | |||
|''proto-aethiopicus''<br><small>Giuffrida-Ruggeri, 1915</small> | |||
|''scythicus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''sinicus''<br><small>Bory de St. Vincent, 1825</small> | |||
|''spelaeus''<br><small>Lapouge, 1899</small> | |||
|''troglodytes''<br><small>Linnaeus, 1758</small> | |||
|''wadjakensis''<br><small>Dubois, 1921</small> | |||
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'''Humans''' ('''''Homo sapiens''''', meaning 'thinking ]' or 'wise man') or '''modern humans''' (] '''''Homo sapiens sapiens''''') are the most common and widespread ] of ], and the last surviving species of the genus '']'' and the broader ] ]. They are ] characterized by their ], ], and high ]. Humans have large ], enabling more advanced ] skills that enable them to thrive and adapt in varied environments, develop highly complex ]s, and form complex ]s and ]s. Humans are ], with individual humans tending to belong to a ] network of cooperating, distinct, or even competing ] – from ] and ] to ] and ]. As such, ]s between humans have established a wide variety of values, ], ]s, and ] (collectively termed ]), each of which bolsters human ]. Humans are also highly ], with the desire to understand and influence ] having motivated humanity's development of ], ], ], ], ], and other frameworks of ]; humans also study themselves through such domains as ], ], ], ], and ]. There are estimated to be ]. | |||
'''Humans''' (variously '']'' and '']'') are ]s of the ] ], and the only ] ] of the ] '']''.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Goodman M, Tagle D, Fitch D, Bailey W, Czelusniak J, Koop B, Benson P, Slightom J |title=Primate evolution at the DNA level and a classification of hominoids |journal=J Mol Evol |volume = 30 |issue=3 |pages=260–266 |year=1990 |pmid=2109087 |doi=10.1007/BF02099995}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Hominidae Classification |work=Animal Diversity Web @ UMich |url=http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/site/accounts/classification/Hominidae.html |accessdate=2006-09-25}}</ref> Humans are distinguished from other primates by their ] locomotion, and especially by their relatively ] ] with its particularly well developed ], ] and ]s, which enable high levels of abstract ], ], ], and ] through social learning. Humans use ]s to a much higher degree than any other animal, and are the only extant species known to build ]s and ], as well as the only known species to ] themselves and create and use numerous other ] and ]s. The scientific study of humans is the discipline of ]. | |||
Although some scientists equate the term "humans" with all members of the genus '']'', in common usage it generally refers to ''Homo sapiens'', the only ] member. All other members of the genus ''Homo'', which are now extinct, are known as ], and the term "modern human" is used to distinguish ''Homo sapiens'' from archaic humans. ] emerged around 300,000 years ago in Africa, evolving from '']'' or a similar species. Migrating ], they gradually replaced and ] with local populations of archaic humans. Multiple hypotheses for the extinction of archaic human species ] include competition, ], ] with ''Homo sapiens'', or inability to adapt to ]. Humans began exhibiting ] about 160,000–60,000 years ago. For most of their history, humans were ] hunter-gatherers. The ], which began in ] around 13,000 years ago (and separately in a few other places), saw the emergence of ] and permanent ]; in turn, this led to the ] and kickstarted a period of continuous (and ongoing) ] and rapid ]. Since then, a number of civilizations have risen and fallen, while a number of ] and ] developments have resulted in significant changes to the human lifestyle. | |||
Humans are uniquely adept at utilizing systems of symbolic communication such as language and art for self-expression, the exchange of ideas, and organization. Humans create complex ]s composed of many cooperating and competing groups, from ] and ] networks to ]. ]s between humans have established an extremely wide variety of values, ], and ]s, which together form the basis of human society. The human desire to understand and influence their environment, and explain and manipulate phenomena, has been the foundation for the development of ], ], ], and ]. | |||
]s and the ] influence human biological variation in visible characteristics, ], disease susceptibility, mental abilities, body size, and life span. Though humans vary in many traits, humans are among the least genetically diverse species. Any two humans are at least 99.5% genetically similar. Humans are ]: generally, ] have greater body strength and ] have a higher ] percentage. At ], humans develop ]s. Females are capable of ], usually between puberty, at around 12 years old, and ], around the age of 50. As ] creatures, they are capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material, and have ] and other forms of heat to prepare and ] food since the time of '']''. Humans can survive for up to eight weeks without ] and several days without ]. Humans are generally ], ]ing on average seven to nine hours per day. ] is dangerous, with a high risk of complications and ]. Often, both the mother and the father provide care for their children, who are ]. | |||
The human lineage diverged from the ] with its closest living relative, the ], some five million years ago, evolving into the ] and eventually the genus ''Homo''.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Tattersall Ian, Schwartz Jeffrey | year = 2009 | title = Evolution of the Genus Homo | url = | journal = Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences | volume = 37 | issue = | pages = 67–92 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.earth.031208.100202 }}</ref> The first ''Homo'' species to move out of Africa was '']'', the ], together with '']'', is considered to be the immediate ancestor of modern humans.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Antón Susan C., Swisher Carl C., III | year = 2004 | title = Early Dispersals of homo from Africa | url = | journal = Annual Review of Anthropology | volume = 33 | issue = | pages = 271–296 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.144024 | last2 = Swisher }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Trinkaus Erik | year = 2005 | title = Early Modern Humans | url = | journal = Annual Review of Anthropology | volume = 34 | issue = | pages = 207–30 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.030905.154913 }}</ref> ''Homo sapiens'' originated in ], where it reached ] about 200,000 years ago and began to exhibit full ] around 50,000 years ago.<ref name="evolutionthe1st4billionyears">{{cite book|title=Evolution: The First Four Billion Years|author=McHenry, H.M|chapter=Human Evolution|editors=Michael Ruse & Joseph Travis|year=2009|publisher=The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|isbn=978-0-674-03175-3|page=265}}</ref> ''Homo sapiens'' proceeded to colonize the continents, arriving in ] 125,000–60,000 years ago,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/69197/title/Hints_of_earlier_human_exit_from_Africa |title=Hints of Earlier Human Exit From Africa |doi=10.1126/science.1199113. |publisher=Science News |date= |accessdate=2011-05-01}}</ref><ref>Paul Rincon BBC News, 27 January 2011</ref> ] around 40,000 years ago, the ] around 15,000 years ago, and remote islands such as ], ], ], and ] between the years AD 300 and 1280.<ref name=Lowe>{{cite web|url=http://researchcommons.waikato.ac.nz/bitstream/10289/2690/1/Lowe%202008%20Polynesian%20settlement%20guidebook.pdf|title=Polynesian settlement of New Zealand and the impacts of volcanism on early Maori society: an update|last=Lowe|first=David J.|year=2008|publisher=University of Waikato|accessdate=29 April 2010}}</ref><ref>Tim Appenzeller, Nature 485, 24–26 {{doi|10.1038/485024a}} 2 May 2012</ref> | |||
Humans have a large, highly developed, and complex ], the region of the ] associated with higher cognition. Humans are highly ] and capable of ]; they have flexible facial expressions, ], and a ]. The human mind is capable of ], private ], ], ], and forming views on ]. This has allowed ] and complex tool development through complex ] and the transmission of knowledge to subsequent generations through ]. | |||
Humans began to practice sedentary agriculture about 12,000 years ago, domesticating plants and animals which allowed for the growth of ]. Humans subsequently established various forms of government, religion, and culture around the world, unifying people within a region and leading to the development of states and empires. The rapid advancement of scientific and medical understanding in the 19th and 20th centuries led to the development of fuel-driven technologies and improved health, causing the human population to rise exponentially. With individuals widespread in every ] except ], humans are a ] species. By 2012 the global human ] was estimated to be around 7 billion.<ref name="popclock">{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/population/popclockworld.html|title=World Population Clock|work=Census.gov|publisher=], Population Division|accessdate=2012-09-15}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/01/world/united-nations-reports-7-billion-humans-but-others-dont-count-on-it.html?_r=1|title=U.N. Reports 7 Billion Humans, but Others Don’t Count on It|last=Roberts|first=Sam|date=31 October 2011|work=]|accessdate=2011-11-07}}</ref> | |||
Humans have had a dramatic ]. They are ]s, being rarely preyed upon by other species.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Roopnarine PD |title=Humans are apex predators |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=111 |issue=9 |pages=E796 |date=March 2014 |pmid=24497513 |pmc=3948303 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1323645111 |bibcode=2014PNAS..111E.796R |doi-access=free| issn = 0027-8424 }}</ref> Human ], industrialization, land development, ] and combustion of ] have led to ] and ] that significantly contributes to the ongoing ] of other forms of life.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.science.org/content/article/landmark-analysis-documents-alarming-global-decline-nature |title=Landmark analysis documents the alarming global decline of nature |vauthors=Stokstad E |date=5 May 2019 |website=] |publisher=] |language=en |access-date=9 May 2021 |quote="For the first time at a global scale, the report has ranked the causes of damage. Topping the list, changes in land use{{snd}}principally agriculture{{snd}}that have destroyed habitat. Second, hunting and other kinds of exploitation. These are followed by climate change, pollution, and invasive species, which are being spread by trade and other activities. Climate change will likely overtake the other threats in the next decades, the authors note. Driving these threats are the growing human population, which has doubled since 1970 to 7.6 billion, and consumption. (Per capita of use of materials is up 15% over the past 5 decades.)" |archive-date=26 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026232451/https://www.science.org/content/article/landmark-analysis-documents-alarming-global-decline-nature |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Pimm S, Raven P, Peterson A, Sekercioglu CH, Ehrlich PR |date=July 2006 |title=Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America |volume=103 |issue=29 |pages=10941–10946 |bibcode=2006PNAS..10310941P |doi=10.1073/pnas.0604181103 |pmc=1544153 |pmid=16829570 |doi-access=free}}</ref> Within the last century, humans have explored challenging environments such as ], the ], and ].<ref name="Heim-1991">{{cite journal |vauthors=Heim BE |year=1990–1991 |title=Exploring the Last Frontiers for Mineral Resources: A Comparison of International Law Regarding the Deep Seabed, Outer Space, and Antarctica |url=https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/vantl23&id=831&div=&collection= |journal=] |volume=23 |page=819 |access-date=30 July 2022 |archive-date=23 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623152719/https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals%2Fvantl23&id=831&div=&collection= |url-status=live}}</ref> Human habitation within these hostile environments is restrictive and expensive, typically limited in duration, and restricted to ], ], or ] expeditions.<ref name="Heim-1991" /> Humans have visited the ] and made their presence known on other ] through human-made ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory-curiosity-rover-msl/ |title=Mission to Mars: Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover |publisher=Jet Propulsion Laboratory |access-date=26 August 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150818014850/https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory-curiosity-rover-msl |archive-date=18 August 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Touchdown!_Rosetta_s_Philae_probe_lands_on_comet |title=Touchdown! Rosetta's Philae probe lands on comet |date=12 November 2014 |publisher=European Space Agency |access-date=26 August 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150822055902/https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Rosetta/Touchdown!_Rosetta_s_Philae_probe_lands_on_comet |archive-date=22 August 2015 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://science.nasa.gov/missions/near/ |title=NEAR-Shoemaker |publisher=] |access-date=26 August 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150826173835/https://science.nasa.gov/missions/near/ |archive-date=26 August 2015 }}</ref> Since the early 20th century, there has been continuous human presence in Antarctica through ] and, since 2000, ] through habitation on the ].<ref>{{cite web |vauthors=Kraft R |title=JSC celebrates ten years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station |url=https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/jscfeatures/articles/000000945.html |publisher=] |work=JSC Features |date=11 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120216221409/https://www.jsc.nasa.gov/jscfeatures/articles/000000945.html |archive-date=16 February 2012 |access-date=13 February 2012 }}</ref> | |||
==Etymology and definition== | |||
{{Further|Man (word)|List of alternative names for the human species}} | |||
In common usage, the word "human" generally refers to the only extant species of the genus '']'' — anatomically and behaviorally modern '' Homo sapiens''. Its usage often designates differences between the species as a whole, against any other nature or entity. The term "human" also designates the collective identity, often applied to superseding concepts of race and creed; e.g. "our" ] and humanity.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} | |||
== Etymology and definition == | |||
In scientific terms, the definition of "human" has changed with the discovery and study of the fossil ancestors of modern humans. The previously clear boundary between human and ape blurred, resulting in "Homo" referring to "human" now encompassing multiple ]. There is also a distinction between '']'' and '']'', the earliest fossil members of the species, which are classified as a ] of ''Homo sapiens'', e.g. ''Homo sapiens neanderthalensis''. | |||
{{Further|Names for the human species|Human taxonomy|}} | |||
] coined the name ''Homo sapiens'']] | |||
All modern humans are classified into the ] ''Homo sapiens'', coined by ] in his 1735 work '']''.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Spamer EE |date=29 January 1999|title=Know Thyself: Responsible Science and the Lectotype of Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758|journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences |volume=149 |issue=1 |pages=109–114 |jstor=4065043}}</ref> The ] '']'' is a learned 18th-century derivation from Latin {{lang|la|homō}}, which refers to humans of either sex.<ref>{{cite book|author=Porkorny|year=1959|title=]|at=s.v. "g'hðem" pp. 414–116}}</ref><ref>{{cite dictionary |title=Homo |dictionary=Dictionary.com |publisher=Random House |url=https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Homo |date=23 September 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080927011551/https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/homo |archive-date=27 September 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> The word ''human'' can refer to all members of the ''Homo'' genus.<ref name="Barras-2016">{{cite web |title=We don't know which species should be classed as 'human' |url=https://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160111-what-is-it-that-makes-you-a-human-and-not-something-else |url-status= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826223800/http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160111-what-is-it-that-makes-you-a-human-and-not-something-else |archive-date=26 August 2021 |access-date=31 March 2021 |website=BBC |first=Colin|last=Barras|date=11 January 2016}}</ref> The name ''Homo sapiens'' means 'wise man' or 'knowledgeable man'.<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Spamer EE|date=1999|title=Know Thyself: Responsible Science and the Lectotype of Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758|journal=Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia|volume=149|pages=109–114|issn=0097-3157|jstor=4065043}}</ref> There is disagreement if certain extinct members of the genus, namely ]s, should be included as a separate species of humans or as a ] of ''H. sapiens''.<ref name="Barras-2016" /> | |||
''Human'' is a ] of ] from ] {{lang|fro|humain}}, ultimately from ] {{lang|la|hūmānus}}, the adjectival form of {{lang|la|homō}} ('man'{{snd}}in the sense of humanity).<ref>{{cite book|title=]|at=] "human"}}</ref> The native English term '']'' can refer to the species generally (a synonym for ''humanity'') as well as to human males. It may also refer to individuals of either sex.<ref>{{cite dictionary |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man |title=Man |quote=Definition 2: a man belonging to a particular category (as by birth, residence, membership, or occupation) – usually used in combination |dictionary=] |archive-date=22 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922050822/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/man |url-status=live |access-date=14 September 2017}}</ref> | |||
Despite the fact that the word ''animal'' is colloquially used as an antonym for ''human'',<ref>{{Cite dictionary |title=Thesaurus results for human |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/human |access-date=21 May 2022 |dictionary=] |archive-date=28 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628010110/https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/human |url-status=live}}</ref> and contrary to a ], humans are ]s.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 September 2021 |title=Misconceptions about evolution – Understanding Evolution |url=https://evolution.berkeley.edu/teach-evolution/misconceptions-about-evolution/ |access-date=21 May 2022 |language=en-US |archive-date=6 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220606191558/https://evolution.berkeley.edu/teach-evolution/misconceptions-about-evolution/ |url-status=live|website=University of California, Berkeley }}</ref> The word '']'' is often used interchangeably with ''human'', but philosophical debate exists as to whether ] applies to all humans or all ]s, and further if a human can lose personhood (such as by going into a ]).<ref>{{Cite web|title=Concept of Personhood |url=https://medicine.missouri.edu/centers-institutes-labs/health-ethics/faq/personhood |access-date=4 July 2021 |website=] |archive-date=4 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304011726/https://medicine.missouri.edu/centers-institutes-labs/health-ethics/faq/personhood |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
The species ] ''Homo sapiens'' was coined by ] in his 18th century work '']'', and he himself is the ] specimen.<ref>{{cite jstor|4065043}}</ref> The ] '']'' is a learned 18th century derivation from Latin ''{{lang|la|homō}}'' "man", ultimately "earthly being" (] ''{{lang|la|hemō}}'', a ] to Old English ''{{lang|ang|guma}}'' "man", from ] ''{{PIE|dʰǵʰ<sub>e</sub>mon-}}'', meaning "earth" or "ground").<ref>] s.v. "g'hðem" pp. 414–416; "Homo." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 23 September 2008. {{cite web |url=http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Homo |publisher=Dictionary.com |title=Homo }}</ref> The species-name ''sapiens'' means "wise" or "sapient". Note that the Latin word ''homo'' refers to humans of either gender, and that ''sapiens'' is the singular form (while there is no word ''sapien''). | |||
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===Evolution=== | |||
{{Main|Human evolution}} | {{Main|Human evolution}} | ||
Humans are apes (]).<ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Tuttle RH |title=International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology |date=4 October 2018 |publisher=] |isbn=978-1-118-58442-2 |veditors=Trevathan W, Cartmill M, Dufour D, Larsen C |place=], ], ]|pages=1–2|language=en|chapter=Hominoidea: conceptual history|doi=10.1002/9781118584538.ieba0246|s2cid=240125199|author-link=Russell Tuttle|access-date=26 May 2021|chapter-url=https://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/9781118584538.ieba0246}}</ref> The ] of apes that eventually gave rise to humans first split from ]s (family Hylobatidae) and ]s (genus ''Pongo''), then ]s (genus ''Gorilla''), and finally, ]s and ]s (genus '']''). The last split, between the human and chimpanzee–bonobo lineages, took place around 8–4 million years ago, in the late ] epoch.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Goodman M, Tagle DA, Fitch DH, Bailey W, Czelusniak J, Koop BF, Benson P, Slightom JL |display-authors=6 |title=Primate evolution at the DNA level and a classification of hominoids |journal=] |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=260–266 |date=March 1990 |pmid=2109087 |doi=10.1007/BF02099995 |s2cid=2112935 |bibcode=1990JMolE..30..260G}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Ruvolo M |date=March 1997 |title=Molecular phylogeny of the hominoids: inferences from multiple independent DNA sequence data sets |journal=] |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=248–265|doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025761|pmid=9066793|doi-access=free}}</ref> During this split, ] was formed from the joining of two other chromosomes, leaving humans with only 23 pairs of chromosomes, compared to 24 for the other apes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Human Chromosome 2 is a fusion of two ancestral chromosomes |url=https://www.evolutionpages.com/chromosome_2.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809040210/https://www.evolutionpages.com/chromosome_2.htm |archive-date=9 August 2011 |access-date=18 May 2006 |work=Evolution pages |vauthors=MacAndrew A}}</ref> Following their split with chimpanzees and bonobos, the ] diversified into many species and at least two distinct genera. All but one of these lineages{{snd}}representing the genus '']'' and its sole extant species ''Homo sapiens''{{snd}}are now extinct.<ref>{{Cite web |last=McNulty |first=Kieran P. |year=2016 |title=Hominin Taxonomy and Phylogeny: What's In A Name? |url=https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/hominin-taxonomy-and-phylogeny-what-s-in-142102877/ |access-date=11 June 2022 |website=Nature Education Knowledge |language=en |archive-date=10 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110013134/https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/hominin-taxonomy-and-phylogeny-what-s-in-142102877/ |url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
{{Further|Anthropology|Homo (genus)|Timeline of human evolution}} | |||
]'','' the first '']'' skeleton found]] | |||
Scientific study of ] studies the development of the genus '']'', reconstructing the evolutionary divergence of the human lineage from other ] (members of the human clade after the split from the ] lineage), ] (great apes) and ]. Modern humans are defined as belonging to the ] ''Homo sapiens'', specifically to the single extant ] ''Homo sapiens sapiens''. | |||
The genus ''Homo'' evolved from '']''.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Strait DS |title=The Evolutionary History of the Australopiths |journal=Evolution: Education and Outreach |date=September 2010 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=341–352 |doi=10.1007/s12052-010-0249-6 |s2cid=31979188 |language=en |issn=1936-6434 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Dunsworth HM |title=Origin of the Genus Homo |journal=Evolution: Education and Outreach |date=September 2010 |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=353–366 |doi=10.1007/s12052-010-0247-8 |s2cid=43116946 |language=en |issn=1936-6434 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Though ] from the transition are scarce, the earliest members of ''Homo'' share several key traits with ''Australopithecus''.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Kimbel WH, Villmoare B |title=From Australopithecus to Homo: the transition that wasn't |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences |volume =371 |issue=1698 |page=20150248 |date=July 2016 |pmid=27298460 |pmc=4920303 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2015.0248 |s2cid=20267830}}</ref><ref name=Villmoare2015>{{cite journal |vauthors=Villmoare B, Kimbel WH, Seyoum C, Campisano CJ, DiMaggio EN, Rowan J, Braun DR, Arrowsmith JR, Reed KE |display-authors=6 |title=Paleoanthropology. Early Homo at 2.8 Ma from Ledi-Geraru, Afar, Ethiopia |journal=] |volume=347 |issue=6228 |pages=1352–1355 |date=March 2015 |pmid=25739410 |doi=10.1126/science.aaa1343 |doi-access=free |bibcode=2015Sci...347.1352V}}</ref> The earliest record of ''Homo'' is the 2.8 million-year-old specimen ] from ], and the earliest named species are '']'' and '']'' which evolved by 2.3 million years ago.<ref name=Villmoare2015 /> '']'' (the African variant is sometimes called '']'') evolved 2 million years ago and was the first ] species to leave Africa and disperse across Eurasia.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Zhu Z, Dennell R, Huang W, Wu Y, Qiu S, Yang S, Rao Z, Hou Y, Xie J, Han J, Ouyang T |display-authors=6 |title=Hominin occupation of the Chinese Loess Plateau since about 2.1 million years ago |journal=] |volume=559 |issue=7715 |pages=608–612 |date=July 2018 |pmid=29995848 | doi=10.1038/s41586-018-0299-4 |bibcode=2018Natur.559..608Z |s2cid =49670311}}</ref> ''H. erectus'' also was the first to evolve a characteristically human ]. ''Homo sapiens'' emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago from a species commonly designated as either '']'' or '']'', the descendants of ''H. erectus'' that remained in Africa.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors=Hublin JJ, Ben-Ncer A, Bailey SE, Freidline SE, Neubauer S, Skinner MM, Bergmann I, Le Cabec A, Benazzi S, Harvati K, Gunz P |display-authors=6 |title=New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens |journal=] |volume=546 |issue=7657 |pages=289–292 |date=June 2017 |pmid=28593953 |doi=10.1038/nature22336 |bibcode=2017Natur.546..289H |s2cid=256771372 |url=https://kar.kent.ac.uk/62267/1/Submission_288356_1_art_file_2637492_j96j1b.pdf |access-date=30 July 2022 |archive-date=8 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200108234003/https://kar.kent.ac.uk/62267/1/Submission_288356_1_art_file_2637492_j96j1b.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> ''H. sapiens'' migrated out of the continent, gradually replacing or interbreeding with local populations of archaic humans.<ref>{{cite journal |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=13 May 2005 |title=Out of Africa Revisited |journal=] |type=This Week in ''Science'' |volume=308 |issue=5724 |page=921 |doi=10.1126/science.308.5724.921g |issn=0036-8075 |s2cid=220100436}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Stringer C |title=Human evolution: Out of Ethiopia |journal=] |volume=423 |issue=6941 |pages=692–693, 695 |date=June 2003 |pmid=12802315 |doi=10.1038/423692a |s2cid=26693109 |author-link=Chris Stringer |bibcode=2003Natur.423..692S}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |vauthors=Johanson D |author-link=Donald Johanson |date=May 2001 |title=Origins of Modern Humans: Multiregional or Out of Africa? |url=https://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/johanson.html |access-date=23 November 2009 |website=] |publisher=] |location=Washington, DC |archive-date=17 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617010349/http://www.actionbioscience.org/evolution/johanson.html |url-status=dead}}</ref> Humans began exhibiting ] about 160,000–70,000 years ago,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Marean |first1=Curtis |display-authors=etal |date=2007 |title=Early human use of marine resources and pigment in South Africa during the Middle Pleistocene |journal=] |volume=449 |issue=7164 |pages=905–908 |bibcode=2007Natur.449..905M |doi=10.1038/nature06204 |pmid=17943129 |s2cid=4387442 |url=http://doc.rero.ch/record/15550/files/PAL_E2962.pdf |access-date=7 January 2023 |archive-date=25 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230525103726/https://doc.rero.ch/record/15550/files/PAL_E2962.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> and possibly earlier.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Brooks AS, Yellen JE, Potts R, Behrensmeyer AK, Deino AL, Leslie DE, Ambrose SH, Ferguson JR, d'Errico F, Zipkin AM, Whittaker S, Post J, Veatch EG, Foecke K, Clark JB |year=2018 |title=Long-distance stone transport and pigment use in the earliest Middle Stone Age |journal=] |volume=360 |issue=6384 |pages=90–94 |bibcode=2018Sci...360...90B |doi=10.1126/science.aao2646 |pmid=29545508 |doi-access=free}}</ref> This development was likely selected amidst ] in ] to ] Africa.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Wilkins |first1=Jayne |last2=Schoville |first2=Benjamin J. |date=June 2024 |title=Did climate change make Homo sapiens innovative, and if yes, how? 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The ] took place in at least two waves, the first around 130,000 to 100,000 years ago, the second (]) around 70,000 to 50,000 years ago.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Posth C, Renaud G, Mittnik A, Drucker DG, Rougier H, Cupillard C, Valentin F, Thevenet C, Furtwängler A, Wißing C, Francken M, Malina M, Bolus M, Lari M, Gigli E, Capecchi G, Crevecoeur I, Beauval C, Flas D, Germonpré M, van der Plicht J, Cottiaux R, Gély B, Ronchitelli A, Wehrberger K, Grigorescu D, Svoboda J, Semal P, Caramelli D, Bocherens H, Harvati K, Conard NJ, Haak W, Powell A, Krause J |display-authors=6 |title=Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe |journal=] |volume=26 |issue=6 |pages=827–833 |date=March 2016 |pmid=26853362 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037 |bibcode=2016CBio...26..827P |hdl-access=free |s2cid=140098861 |hdl=2440/114930}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Karmin M, Saag L, Vicente M, Wilson Sayres MA, Järve M, Talas UG, Rootsi S, Ilumäe AM, Mägi R, Mitt M, Pagani L, Puurand T, Faltyskova Z, Clemente F, Cardona A, Metspalu E, Sahakyan H, Yunusbayev B, Hudjashov G, DeGiorgio M, Loogväli EL, Eichstaedt C, Eelmets M, Chaubey G, Tambets K, Litvinov S, Mormina M, Xue Y, Ayub Q, Zoraqi G, Korneliussen TS, Akhatova F, Lachance J, Tishkoff S, Momynaliev K, Ricaut FX, Kusuma P, Razafindrazaka H, Pierron D, Cox MP, Sultana GN, Willerslev R, Muller C, Westaway M, Lambert D, Skaro V, Kovačevic L, Turdikulova S, Dalimova D, Khusainova R, Trofimova N, Akhmetova V, Khidiyatova I, Lichman DV, Isakova J, Pocheshkhova E, Sabitov Z, Barashkov NA, Nymadawa P, Mihailov E, Seng JW, Evseeva I, Migliano AB, Abdullah S, Andriadze G, Primorac D, Atramentova L, Utevska O, Yepiskoposyan L, Marjanovic D, Kushniarevich A, Behar DM, Gilissen C, Vissers L, Veltman JA, Balanovska E, Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Metspalu A, Fedorova S, Eriksson A, Manica A, Mendez FL, Karafet TM, Veeramah KR, Bradman N, Hammer MF, Osipova LP, 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====Evidence from molecular biology==== | |||
] hominoids: humans (genus '']''), chimpanzees and bonobos (genus '']''), gorillas (genus '']''), orangutans (genus '']''), and gibbons (four genera of the family ]: '']'', '']'', '']'', and '']''). All except gibbons are hominids.]] | |||
The closest living relatives of humans are chimpanzees (genus ''Pan'') and gorillas (genus ''Gorilla'').<ref name=Wood>{{cite journal |author=Wood, Bernard; Richmond, Brian G. |title=Human evolution: taxonomy and paleobiology |journal=Journal of Anatomy |volume=197 |issue=1 |pages=19–60 |year=2000 |pmid=10999270 |pmc=1468107 |doi=10.1046/j.1469-7580.2000.19710019.x}}</ref> With the ] of both the human and chimpanzee genome, current estimates of similarity between human and chimpanzee DNA ] range between 95% and 99%.<ref name=Wood/><ref>Ajit, Varki and David L. Nelson. 2007. Genomic Comparisons of Humans and Chimpanzees. Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2007. 36:191–209: "Sequence differences from the human genome were confirmed to be ∼1% in areas that can be precisely aligned, representing ∼35 million single base-pair differences. Some 45 million nucleotides of insertions and deletions unique to each lineage were also discovered, making the actual difference between the two genomes ∼4%."</ref><ref>Ken Sayers, Mary Ann Raghanti, and C. Owen Lovejoy. 2012 (forthcoming, october) Human Evolution and the Chimpanzee Referential Doctrine. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 41</ref> By using the technique called a ] which estimates the time required for the number of divergent mutations to accumulate between two lineages, the approximate date for the split between lineages can be calculated. The gibbons ('']'') and ]s (genus ''Pongo'') were the first groups to split from the ] leading to the humans, then ]s (genus ''Gorilla'') followed by the ]s and ]s (genus ''Pan''). The splitting date between human and chimpanzee lineages is placed around 4–8 million years ago during the late ] epoch.<ref>Ruvolo, M. 1997. Genetic Diversity in Hominoid Primates. Annual Review of Anthropology , Vol. 26, (1997), pp. 515–540</ref><ref name=Ruvolo1997>{{cite journal |author=Ruvolo, Maryellen |title=Molecular phylogeny of the hominoids: inferences from multiple independent DNA sequence data sets |url=http://mbe.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/14/3/248 |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |volume=14 |issue=3 |pages=248–265 |year=1997 |pmid=9066793 |doi=10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025761}}</ref><ref>Dawkins R (2004) The Ancestor's Tale. | |||
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Human evolution was not a simple linear or branched progression but involved ].<ref name="pmid21179161" /><ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.grochbiology.org/EarlyHominidInterbreeding.pdf |title=Human Hybrids |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180824034550/https://www.grochbiology.org/EarlyHominidInterbreeding.pdf |archive-date=24 August 2018 |vauthors=Hammer MF |journal=] |date=May 2013 |volume=308 |issue=5 |pages=66–71 |doi=10.1038/scientificamerican0513-66 |pmid=23627222 |bibcode=2013SciAm.308e..66H}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Yong E |date=July 2011 |title=Mosaic humans, the hybrid species |journal=] |volume=211 |issue=2823 |pages=34–38 |bibcode=2011NewSc.211...34Y |doi=10.1016/S0262-4079(11)61839-3|doi-access=free }}</ref> Genomic research has shown that hybridization between substantially diverged lineages was common in human evolution.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Ackermann RR, Mackay A, Arnold ML |date=October 2015 |title=The Hybrid Origin of "Modern" Humans |journal=] |volume=43 |issue=1 |pages=1–11 |doi=10.1007/s11692-015-9348-1 |s2cid=14329491}}</ref> ] evidence suggests that several genes of ] origin are present among all non sub-Saharan-African populations, and Neanderthals and other hominins, such as ]s, may have contributed up to 6% of their ] to present-day non sub-Saharan-African humans.<ref name="pmid21179161">{{cite journal |vauthors=Reich D, Green RE, Kircher M, Krause J, Patterson N, Durand EY, Viola B, Briggs AW, Stenzel U, Johnson PL, Maricic T, Good JM, Marques-Bonet T, Alkan C, Fu Q, Mallick S, Li H, Meyer M, Eichler EE, Stoneking M, Richards M, Talamo S, Shunkov MV, Derevianko AP, Hublin JJ, Kelso J, Slatkin M, Pääbo S |display-authors=6 |title=Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia |journal=] |volume=468 |issue=7327 |pages=1053–1060 |date=December 2010 |pmid=21179161 |pmc=4306417 |doi=10.1038/nature09710 |bibcode=2010Natur.468.1053R |hdl=10230/25596 |author-link1=David Reich (geneticist) }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Noonan JP |title=Neanderthal genomics and the evolution of modern humans |journal=] |volume=20 |issue=5 |pages=547–553 |date=May 2010 |pmid=20439435 |pmc=2860157 |doi=10.1101/gr.076000.108}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Abi-Rached L, Jobin MJ, Kulkarni S, McWhinnie A, Dalva K, Gragert L, Babrzadeh F, Gharizadeh B, Luo M, Plummer FA, Kimani J, Carrington M, Middleton D, Rajalingam R, Beksac M, Marsh SG, Maiers M, Guethlein LA, Tavoularis S, Little AM, Green RE, Norman PJ, Parham P |display-authors=6 |title=The shaping of modern human immune systems by multiregional admixture with archaic humans |journal=] |volume=334 |issue=6052 |pages=89–94 |date=October 2011 |pmid=21868630 |pmc=3677943 |doi=10.1126/science.1209202 |bibcode=2011Sci...334...89A}}</ref> | |||
====Evidence from the fossil record==== | |||
] 2. '']'' 3. '']'' 4. ] (La Chapelle aux Saints) 5. ] (Archaic ''Homo sapiens'') 6. Anatomically modern ''Homo sapiens'']] | |||
There is little fossil evidence for the divergence of the gorilla, chimpanzee and hominin lineages.<ref>Begun, David R. 2010. Miocene Hominids and the Origins of the African Apes and Humans. Annual Review of Anthropology, Vol. 39: 67 -84</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Begun David R., Nargolwalla Mariam C., Kordos Laszlo | year = 2012 | title = European Miocene Hominids and the Origin of the African Ape and Human Clade | url = | journal = Evolutionary Anthropology | volume = 21 | issue = 1| pages = 10–23 | doi = 10.1002/evan.20329 | pmid = 22307721 }}</ref> The earliest fossils that have been proposed as members of the hominin lineage are '']'' dating from {{mya|7}}, and '']'' dating from {{mya|5.7}} and '']'' dating to {{mya|5.6}}. Each of these has been argued to be a ] ancestor of later hominins, but in each case the claims have been contested. It is also possible that either of these species is an ancestor of another branch of African apes, or that they represent a shared ancestor between hominins and other Hominoidea. The question of the relation between these early fossil species and the hominin lineage is still to be resolved. From these early species the ]s arose around {{mya|4}} diverged into ] (also called '']'') and ] branches, one of which (possibly '']'') went on to become ancestors of the genus ''Homo''. | |||
Human evolution is characterized by a number of ], ], ], and ] changes that have taken place since the split between the ]. The most significant of these adaptations are ],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Sandel |first1=Aaron A. |title=Brief communication: Hair density and body mass in mammals and the evolution of human hairlessness |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |date=30 July 2013 |volume=152 |issue=1 |pages=145–150 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.22333 |pmid=23900811 |hdl=2027.42/99654 |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.22333 |access-date=22 July 2023 |hdl-access=free |archive-date=22 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230722182152/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.22333 |url-status=live }}</ref> obligate bipedalism, increased brain size and decreased ] (]). The relationship between all these changes is the subject of ongoing debate.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Boyd R, Silk JB |author1-link=Robert Boyd (anthropologist) |author2-link=Joan Silk |url=https://archive.org/details/howhumansevolved03edboyd |title=How Humans Evolved |publisher=] |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-393-97854-4 |location=New York |url-access=registration}}</ref> | |||
The earliest members of the genus ''Homo'' are '']'' which evolved around {{Mya|2.3}}. ''Homo habilis'' is the first species for which we have positive evidence of use of ]. The brains of these early hominins were about the same size as that of a chimpanzee, and their main adaptation was bipedalism as an adaptation to terrestrial living. During the next million years a process of ] began, and with the arrival of '']'' in the fossil record, cranial capacity had doubled. ''Homo erectus'' were the first of the hominina to leave Africa, and these species spread through Africa, Asia, and Europe between {{Mya|1.3|1.8}}. One population of ''H. erectus'', also sometimes classified as a separate species '']'', stayed in Africa and evolved into ''Homo sapiens''. It is believed that these species were the first to use fire and complex tools. The earliest transitional fossils between ''H. ergaster/erectus'' and ] are from Africa such as '']'', but seemingly transitional forms are also found at ], ]. These descendants of African ''H. erectus'' spread through Eurasia from ca. 500,000 years ago evolving into '']'', '']'' and '']''. The earliest fossils of ] are from the ], about 200,000 years ago such as the ] of Ethiopia and the fossils of Herto sometimes classified as '']''.<ref name="White03">{{Cite journal |last=White |first=Tim D. |authorlink=Tim White (anthropologist) |last2=Asfaw |first2=B. |last3=DeGusta |first3=D. |last4=Gilbert |first4=H. |last5=Richards |first5=G. D. |last6=Suwa |first6=G. |last7=Howell |first7=F. C. |year=2003 |title=Pleistocene ''Homo sapiens'' from Middle Awash, Ethiopia |journal=] |volume=423 |issue=6491 |pages=742–747 |doi=10.1038/nature01669|pmid=12802332 |postscript=<!-- Bot inserted parameter. Either remove it; or change its value to "." for the cite to end in a ".", as necessary. -->{{inconsistent citations}} }}</ref> Later fossils of archaic ''Homo sapiens'' from ] in Israel and Southern Europe begin around 90,000 years ago.<ref>{{Cite journal |journal=] |title=Femoral neck-shaft angles of the Qafzeh-Skhul early modern humans, and activity levels among immature near eastern Middle Paleolithic hominids |author=Trinkaus, E. |authorlink=Erik Trinkaus |url=http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=4290541 |publisher=] |year=1993 |volume=25 |pages=393–416 |issn=0047-2484 |doi=10.1006/jhev.1993.1058 |issue=5}}</ref> | |||
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== History == | |||
====Anatomical adaptations==== | |||
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] | |||
Human evolution is characterized by a number of ], ], ], and ] changes that have taken place since the split between the ]. The most significant of these adaptations are 1. bipedalism, 2. increased brain size, 3. lengthened ] (gestation and infancy), 4. decreased ]. The relationship between all these changes is the subject of ongoing debate.<ref name=Boyd2003>{{cite book |author=Boyd, Robert; Silk, Joan B. |year=2003 |title=How Humans Evolved |location=New York, New York |publisher=Norton |isbn=0-393-97854-0}}</ref> Other significant morphological changes included the evolution of a ], a change first occurring in ''H. erectus''.<ref name=Brues1965>{{cite journal |author=Brues, Alice M.; Snow, Clyde C. |title=Physical Anthropology |journal=Biennial Review of Anthropology |year=1965 |volume=4 |pages=1–39 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=9WemAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1 |isbn=9780804717465}}</ref> | |||
===Prehistory=== | |||
]ism is the basic adaption of the hominin line, and it is considered the main cause behind a suite of ] shared by all bipedal hominins. The earliest bipedal ] is considered to be either '']''<ref name=Brunet2002>{{cite journal |author=Brunet, M.; Guy, F.; Pilbeam, D.; Mackaye, H.; Likius, A.; Ahounta, D.; Beauvilain, A.; Blondel, C.; Bocherens, H.; Boisserie, J.; De Bonis, L.; Coppens, Y.; Dejax, J.; Denys, C.; Duringer, P.; Eisenmann, V.; Fanone, G.; Fronty, P.; Geraads, D.; Lehmann, T.; Lihoreau, F.; Louchart, A.; Mahamat, A.; Merceron, G.; Mouchelin, G.; Otero, O.; Pelaez Campomanes, P.; Ponce De Leon, M.; Rage, J.; Sapanet, M.; Schuster, M.; Sudre, J.; Tassy, P.; Valentin, X.; Vignaud, P.; Viriot, L.; Zazzo, A.; Zollikofer, C. |title=A new hominid from the Upper Miocene of Chad, Central Africa |url=http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v418/n6894/full/nature00879.html |journal=Nature |volume=418 |issue=6894 |pages=145–151 |year=2002 |pmid=12110880 |doi=10.1038/nature00879}}</ref> or '']'', with '']'', a full bipedal, coming somewhat later. The knuckle walkers, the ] and ], diverged around the same time, and either ''Sahelanthropus'' or ''Orrorin'' may be humans' last shared ancestor with those animals. The early bipedals eventually evolved into the ] and later the genus '']''. There are several theories of the adaptational value of bipedalism. It is possible that bipedalism was favored because it freed up the hands for reaching and carrying food, because it saved energy during locomotion, because it enabled long distance running and hunting, or as a strategy for avoiding hyperthermia by reducing the surface exposed to direct sun. | |||
{{Main|Prehistory}} | |||
] during the ], following the ] paradigm]] | |||
Until about 12,000 years ago, all humans lived as ]s.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Little |first1=Michael A. |chapter=Hunter-Gatherers |chapter-url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128026526000232 |title=Basics in Human Evolution |pages=323–335 |year=2015 |editor-last=Muehlenbein |editor-first=Michael P. |place=Boston |publisher=Academic |isbn=978-0-12-802652-6 |last2=Blumler |first2=Mark A. |access-date=30 July 2022 |archive-date=3 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220703085714/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780128026526000232 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Scarre |first=Chris |title=The Human Past: World Prehistory and the Development of Human Societies |publisher=] |year=2018 |isbn=978-0-500-29335-5 |editor-last=Scarre |editor-first=Chris |edition=4th |location=London |pages=174–197 |chapter=The world transformed: from foragers and farmers to states and empires |author-link=Chris Scarre}}</ref> The ] (the invention of ]) first took place in ] and spread through large parts of the ] over the following millennia.<ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Colledge S, Conolly J, Dobney K, Manning K, Shennan S|title=Origins and Spread of Domestic Animals in Southwest Asia and Europe.|date=2013|publisher=Left Coast |isbn=978-1-61132-324-5|location=Walnut Creek, CA|pages=13–17}}</ref> It also occurred independently in ] (about 6,000 years ago),<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Scanes CG |date= January 2018 | chapter =The Neolithic Revolution, Animal Domestication, and Early Forms of Animal Agriculture | veditors = Scanes CG, Toukhsati SR |title = Animals and Human Society |pages=103–131 |publisher= Elsevier |doi=10.1016/B978-0-12-805247-1.00006-X|isbn= 978-0-12-805247-1 }}</ref> China,<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=He K, Lu H, Zhang J, Wang C, Huan X |title=Prehistoric evolution of the dualistic structure mixed rice and millet farming in China |journal=The Holocene |date=7 June 2017 |volume=27 |issue=12 |pages=1885–1898 |doi=10.1177/0959683617708455 |bibcode=2017Holoc..27.1885H |s2cid=133660098 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317400332 |access-date=30 July 2022 |archive-date=20 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211120221221/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317400332_Prehistoric_evolution_of_the_dualistic_structure_mixed_rice_and_millet_farming_in_China |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lu H, Zhang J, Liu KB, Wu N, Li Y, Zhou K, Ye M, Zhang T, Zhang H, Yang X, Shen L, Xu D, Li Q | display-authors = 6 | title = Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 106 | issue = 18 | pages = 7367–7372 | date = May 2009 | pmid = 19383791 | pmc = 2678631 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0900158106 | bibcode = 2009PNAS..106.7367L | doi-access = free }}</ref> ],<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Denham TP, Haberle SG, Lentfer C, Fullagar R, Field J, Therin M, Porch N, Winsborough B | display-authors = 6 | title = Origins of agriculture at Kuk Swamp in the highlands of New Guinea | journal = Science | volume = 301 | issue = 5630 | pages = 189–193 | date = July 2003 | pmid = 12817084 | doi = 10.1126/science.1085255 | s2cid = 10644185 | doi-access = free }}</ref> and the ] and ] regions of Africa.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Scarcelli N, Cubry P, Akakpo R, Thuillet AC, Obidiegwu J, Baco MN, Otoo E, Sonké B, Dansi A, Djedatin G, Mariac C, Couderc M, Causse S, Alix K, Chaïr H, François O, Vigouroux Y | display-authors = 6 | title = Yam genomics supports West Africa as a major cradle of crop domestication | journal = Science Advances | volume = 5 | issue = 5 | pages = eaaw1947 | date = May 2019 | pmid = 31114806 | doi = 10.1126/sciadv.aaw1947 | pmc = 6527260 | bibcode = 2019SciA....5.1947S | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Winchell F|date=October 2017|title=Evidence for Sorghum Domestication in Fourth Millennium BC Eastern Sudan: Spikelet Morphology from Ceramic Impressions of the Butana Group|journal=Current Anthropology|volume=58|issue=5|pages=673–683|doi=10.1086/693898|s2cid=149402650|url=https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1574602/7/Fuller_693898.pdf|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=23 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623152728/https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1574602/7/Fuller_693898.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Manning K |date=February 2011|title=4500-Year old domesticated pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) from the Tilemsi Valley, Mali: new insights into an alternative cereal domestication pathway |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science|volume=38|issue=2|pages=312–322|doi=10.1016/j.jas.2010.09.007 |bibcode=2011JArSc..38..312M }}</ref> | |||
Access to food surplus led to the formation of permanent ]s, the ] of animals and the ] for the first time in history. Agriculture and sedentary lifestyle led to the emergence of early ].<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Noble TF, Strauss B, Osheim D, Neuschel K, Accamp E|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Td4WAAAAQBAJ&q=western+civilisation+egypt&pg=PA16|title=Cengage Advantage Books: Western Civilization: Beyond Boundaries|date=2013|publisher=Cengage |isbn=978-1-285-66153-7|access-date=11 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Spielvogel J|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LceiAgAAQBAJ&q=western+civilisation+egypt&pg=PT65|title=Western Civilization: Volume A: To 1500|date=1 January 2014|publisher=Cengage |isbn=978-1-285-98299-1|access-date=11 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Thornton B|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fa6swJv64xkC&q=Greek+Ways:+How+the+Greeks+Created+Western+Civilization|title=Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization|publisher=Encounter |year=2002|isbn=978-1-893554-57-3|location=San Francisco|pages=1–14|access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> | |||
The human species developed a much larger brain than that of other primates – typically 1,330 ] in modern humans, over twice the size of that of a chimpanzee or gorilla.<ref name="Schoeneman">{{cite journal|title=Evolution of the Size and Functional Areas of the Human Brain|author= P. Thomas Schoenemann|journal=Annu. Rev. Anthropol|year= 2006|volume=35|pages=379–406|doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.35.081705.123210}}</ref> The pattern of ] started with ''Homo habilis'' which at approximately 600 cc had a brain slightly larger than chimpanzees, and continued with ''Homo erectus'' (800–1100 cc), and reached a maximum in Neanderthals with an average size of 1200-1900cc, larger even than ''Homo sapiens''. The pattern of human postnatal ] differs from that of other apes (]), and allows for extended periods of ] and ] in juvenile humans. However, the differences between the structure of ]s and those of other apes may be even more significant than differences in size.<ref name=Park2007>{{cite journal |author=Park, Min S.; Nguyen, Andrew D.; Aryan, Henry E.; U, Hoi Sang; Levy, Michael L.; Semendeferi, Katerina |title=Evolution of the human brain: changing brain size and the fossil record |journal=Neurosurgery |year=2007 |volume=60 |issue=3 |pages=555–562 |pmid=17327801 |doi= 10.1227/01.NEU.0000249284.54137.32}}</ref><ref name=Bruner2007>{{cite journal |author=Bruner, Emiliano |title=Cranial shape and size variation in human evolution: structural and functional perspectives |journal=Child's Nervous System |year=2007 |volume=23 |issue=12 |pages=1357–1365 |pmid=17680251 |url=http://www.emilianobruner.it/pdf/Bruner2007_CNS.pdf |format=PDF |doi=10.1007/s00381-007-0434-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Potts Richard | year = 2012 | title = Evolution and Environmental Change in Early Human Prehistory | url = | journal = Annu. Rev. Anthropol | volume = 41 | issue = | pages = 151–67 | doi = 10.1146/annurev-anthro-092611-145754 }}</ref><ref>Leonard, William R. , J. Josh Snodgrass, and Marcia L. Robertson. 2007. Effects of Brain Evolution on Human Nutrition and Metabolism. Annu. Rev. Nutr. 27:311–27</ref> The increase in volume over time has affected different areas within the brain unequally – the ]s, which contain centers for language processing have increased disproportionately, as has the ] which has been related to complex decision making and moderating social behavior.<ref name="Schoeneman"/> Encephalization has been tied to an increasing emphasis on meat in the diet,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/6-14-1999a.html |title=06.14.99 – Meat-eating was essential for human evolution, says UC Berkeley anthropologist specializing in diet |work=Berkeley.edu |date=1999-06-14 |accessdate=2012-01-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Meat+in+the+human+diet:+an+anthropological+perspective-a0169311689 |title=Meat in the human diet: an anthropological perspective. – Free Online Library |work=Thefreelibrary.com |date=2007-09-01 |accessdate=2012-01-31}}</ref> or with the development of cooking,<ref name=PNAS>{{cite web| url= http://www.pnas.org/content/108/35/14555.full?sid=95c4876b-9870-4259-888f-24a6179be4fc | title = Phylogenetic rate shifts in feeding time during the evolution of Homo | first = Chris | last = Organ | work= ] | date = 22 August 2011 | accessdate=17 April 2012}}</ref> and it has been proposed that intelligence increased as a response to an increased necessity for ] as human society became more complex. | |||
===Ancient=== | |||
The reduced degree of sexual dimorphism is primarily visible in the reduction of the male ] relative to other ape species (except ]). Another important physiological change related to sexuality in humans was the evolution of ]. Humans are the only ape in which the female is fertile year round, and in which no special signals of fertility are produced by the body (such as ] during estrus). Nonetheless humans retain a degree of sexual dimorphism in the distribution of body hair and subcutaneous fat, and in the overall size, males being around 25% larger than females. These changes taken together have been interpreted as a result of an increased emphasis on ] as a possible solution to the requirement for increased parental investment due to the prolonged infancy of offspring. | |||
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], Egypt]] | |||
An ] took place in the 4th millennium BCE with the development of ]s, particularly ]ian cities located in ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Garfinkle | first= Steven J. | chapter= Ancient Near Eastern City-States | editor1= Peter Fibiger Bang | editor1-link= Peter Fibiger Bang | editor2= Walter Scheidel | editor2-link= Walter Scheidel | title= The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean | date= 2013 | publisher= Oxford Academic | doi= 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195188318.013.0004 |isbn=978-0-19-518831-8 | pages= 94–119 }}</ref> It was in these cities that the earliest known form of writing, ], appeared around 3000 BCE.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Woods C | chapter = The Emergence of Cuneiform Writing|date=28 February 2020 |title = A Companion to Ancient Near Eastern Languages|pages=27–46| veditors = Hasselbach-Andee R |edition=1st |publisher=Wiley|doi=10.1002/9781119193814.ch2|isbn=978-1-119-19329-6 | s2cid = 216180781}}</ref> Other major civilizations to develop around this time were ] and the ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Robinson A | title = Ancient civilization: Cracking the Indus script | journal = Nature | volume = 526 | issue = 7574 | pages = 499–501 | date = October 2015 | pmid = 26490603 | doi = 10.1038/526499a | bibcode = 2015Natur.526..499R | s2cid = 4458743 | doi-access = free }}</ref> They eventually traded with each other and invented technology such as wheels, plows and sails.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Crawford H |author-link=Harriet Crawford |title=The Sumerian World|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-1-136-21911-5 |pages=447–461|chapter=Trade in the Sumerian world}}</ref><ref name="Bodnár-2018">{{cite journal|vauthors=Bodnár M|date=2018|title=Prehistoric innovations: Wheels and wheeled vehicles|url=https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=714342|journal=Acta Archaeologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae|volume=69|issue=2|pages=271–298|doi=10.1556/072.2018.69.2.3|s2cid=115685157|issn=0001-5210|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=23 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623152751/https://www.ceeol.com/search/article-detail?id=714342|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Pryor FL|date=1985|title=The Invention of the Plow|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|volume=27|issue=4|pages=727–743|doi=10.1017/S0010417500011749|jstor=178600|s2cid=144840498|issn=0010-4175}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Carter R |url=https://www.academia.edu/1576775|title=A companion to the archaeology of the ancient Near East|publisher=Wiley-Blackwell|year=2012|isbn=978-1-4051-8988-0|veditors=Potts DT |location=Chichester, West Sussex|pages=347–354|chapter=19. ]|access-date=8 February 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428190743/https://www.academia.edu/1576775/Watercraft|archive-date=28 April 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Emerging by 3000 BCE, the ] is the oldest complex civilization in the Americas.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Centre |first1=UNESCO World Heritage |title=Sacred City of Caral-Supe |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1269/ |website=UNESCO World Heritage Centre |access-date=27 May 2024}}</ref> Astronomy and mathematics were also developed and the ] was built.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Pedersen O |title=Early physics and astronomy: A historical introduction.|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1993|isbn=978-0-521-40340-5|page=1|chapter=Science Before the Greeks}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Robson E |title=Mathematics in ancient Iraq: A social history.|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2008|page=xxi}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Edwards JF|date=2003|title=Building the Great Pyramid: Probable Construction Methods Employed at Giza|journal=Technology and Culture|volume=44|issue=2|pages=340–354|doi=10.1353/tech.2003.0063|jstor=25148110|s2cid=109998651|issn=0040-165X}}</ref> There is evidence of a ] lasting about a hundred years that may have caused the decline of these civilizations,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Voosen P | title = New geological age comes under fire | journal = Science | volume = 361 | issue = 6402 | pages = 537–538 | date = August 2018 | pmid = 30093579 | doi = 10.1126/science.361.6402.537 | bibcode = 2018Sci...361..537V | s2cid = 51954326 }}</ref> with new ones appearing in the aftermath. ]ns came to dominate Mesopotamia while others,<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Saggs HW |title=Babylonians|publisher=University of California Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-520-20222-1|page=7}}</ref> such as the ], ] and the ], rose to prominence in new areas.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Sassaman KE |date=1 December 2005|title=Poverty Point as Structure, Event, Process |journal=Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory|volume=12|issue=4|pages=335–364|doi=10.1007/s10816-005-8460-4|s2cid=53393440|issn=1573-7764}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Lazaridis I, Mittnik A, Patterson N, Mallick S, Rohland N, Pfrengle S, Furtwängler A, Peltzer A, Posth C, Vasilakis A, McGeorge PJ, Konsolaki-Yannopoulou E, Korres G, Martlew H, Michalodimitrakis M, Özsait M, Özsait N, Papathanasiou A, Richards M, Roodenberg SA, Tzedakis Y, Arnott R, Fernandes DM, Hughey JR, Lotakis DM, Navas PA, Maniatis Y, Stamatoyannopoulos JA, Stewardson K, Stockhammer P, Pinhasi R, Reich D, Krause J, Stamatoyannopoulos G | display-authors = 6 | title = Genetic origins of the Minoans and Mycenaeans | journal = Nature | volume = 548 | issue = 7666 | pages = 214–218 | date = August 2017 | pmid = 28783727 | doi = 10.1038/nature23310 | pmc = 5565772 | bibcode = 2017Natur.548..214L }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Keightley DN |title=The Cambridge History of Ancient China: From the Origins of Civilization to 221 BC |publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1999|isbn=978-0-521-47030-8 | veditors = Loewe M, Shaughnessy EL |pages=232–291|chapter=The Shang: China's first historical dynasty}}</ref> The ] around 1200 BCE resulted in the disappearance of a number of civilizations and the beginning of the ].<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Kaniewski D, Guiot J, van Campo E |date=2015|title=Drought and societal collapse 3200 years ago in the Eastern Mediterranean: a review |journal=WIREs Climate Change |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=369–382 |doi=10.1002/wcc.345 |bibcode=2015WIRCC...6..369K |s2cid=128460316}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Drake BL |date=1 June 2012|title=The influence of climatic change on the Late Bronze Age Collapse and the Greek Dark Ages |journal=Journal of Archaeological Science |volume=39|issue=6|pages=1862–1870 |doi=10.1016/j.jas.2012.01.029 |bibcode=2012JArSc..39.1862D }}</ref> During this period iron started replacing bronze, leading to the ].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Wells PS | title =European Prehistory| chapter =The Iron Age|date=2011 |pages=405–460| veditors = Milisauskas S |series=Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology|place=New York|publisher=Springer|doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-6633-9_11|isbn=978-1-4419-6633-9 }}</ref> | |||
In the 5th century BCE, history started being ], which provided a much clearer picture of life at the time.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Hughes-Warrington M |title=History as Wonder: Beginning with Historiography.|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2018|isbn=978-0-429-76315-1 |location=United Kingdom|chapter=Sense and non-sense in Ancient Greek histories}}</ref> Between the 8th and 6th century BCE, Europe entered the ] age, a period when ] and ] flourished.<ref>{{cite web|date=2 October 2015|vauthors=Beard M|title=Why ancient Rome matters to the modern world|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/02/mary-beard-why-ancient-rome-matters|access-date=17 April 2021|website=The Guardian|archive-date=14 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210414130448/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/02/mary-beard-why-ancient-rome-matters|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Vidergar AB|date=11 June 2015|title=Stanford scholar debunks long-held beliefs about economic growth in ancient Greece|url=https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/june/greek-economy-growth-061115.html|access-date=17 April 2021|publisher=Stanford University|archive-date=18 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418190351/https://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/june/greek-economy-growth-061115.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Around this time other civilizations also came to prominence. The ] started to build cities and create ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Inomata T, Triadan D, Vázquez López VA, Fernandez-Diaz JC, Omori T, Méndez Bauer MB, García Hernández M, Beach T, Cagnato C, Aoyama K, Nasu H | display-authors = 6 | title = Monumental architecture at Aguada Fénix and the rise of Maya civilization | journal = Nature | volume = 582 | issue = 7813 | pages = 530–533 | date = June 2020 | pmid = 32494009 | doi = 10.1038/s41586-020-2343-4 | bibcode = 2020Natur.582..530I | s2cid = 219281856 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Milbrath S|date=March 2017|title=The Role of Solar Observations in Developing the Preclassic Maya Calendar|journal=Latin American Antiquity|volume=28|issue=1|pages=88–104|doi=10.1017/laq.2016.4|s2cid=164417025|issn=1045-6635}}</ref> In Africa, the ] overtook the declining ] and facilitated trade between India and the Mediterranean.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Benoist A, Charbonnier J, Gajda I|date=2016|title=Investigating the eastern edge of the kingdom of Aksum: architecture and pottery from Wakarida|journal=Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies|volume=46|pages=25–40|jstor=45163415|issn=0308-8421}}</ref> In West Asia, the ]'s system of centralized governance became the precursor to many later empires,<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Farazmand A |date=1 January 1998|title=Administration of the Persian Achaemenid world-state empire: implications for modern public administration |journal=International Journal of Public Administration|volume=21|issue=1|pages=25–86|doi=10.1080/01900699808525297|issn=0190-0692}}</ref> while the ] in India and the ] in China have been described as ] in their respective regions.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Ingalls DH|date=1976|title=Kālidāsa and the Attitudes of the Golden Age|journal=Journal of the American Oriental Society|volume=96|issue=1|pages=15–26|doi=10.2307/599886 |jstor=599886|issn=0003-0279}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Xie J|date=2020|title=Pillars of Heaven: The Symbolic Function of Column and Bracket Sets in the Han Dynasty|journal=Architectural History|volume=63|pages=1–36|doi=10.1017/arh.2020.1|s2cid=229716130|issn=0066-622X}}</ref> | |||
===Rise of ''Homo sapiens''=== | |||
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===Medieval=== | |||
By the beginning of the ] period (50,000 ]), full ], including ], ] and other ]s had developed.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Nowell April | year = 2010 | title = Defining Behavioral Modernity in the Context of Neandertal and Anatomically Modern Human Populations | url = | journal = Annual Review of Anthropology | volume = 39 | issue = | pages = 437–452 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.anthro.012809.105113 }}</ref><ref>Francesco d'Errico and Chris B. Stringer. 2011. Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures? Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 12 April 2011 vol. 366 no. 1567 1060–1069. {{DOI|10.1098/rstb.2010.0340}}</ref> As modern humans spread out from Africa they encountered other hominids such as '']'' and the so-called ], who may have evolved from populations of ''Homo erectus'' that had left Africa already around {{mya|2}}. The nature of interaction between early humans and these sister species has been a long standing source of controversy, the question being whether humans replaced these earlier species or whether they were in fact similar enough to interbreed, in which case these earlier populations may have contributed genetic material to modern humans.<ref name=Grine2009>{{cite book |author=Wood, Bernard A. |editor-last=Grine, Frederick E.; Fleagle, John G.; Leakey, Richard E. (eds) |chapter=Where does the genus ''Homo'' begin, and how would we know? |title=The First Humans: Origin and Early Evolution of the Genus ''Homo'' |year=2009 |publisher=Springer |location=London, UK |isbn=978-1-4020-9979-3 |pages=17–27 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ITp_RnsPfzQC&pg=PA17}}</ref> Recent studies of the human and Neanderthal genomes suggest ] between archaic ''Homo sapiens'' and Neanderthals and Denisovans.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Nature|volume=464|pages=838–839|doi=10.1038/464838a|title=Human evolution: Stranger from Siberia|author=Brown, Terence A.|issue=7290|pmid=20376137|date=8 April 2010}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002929711003958 | doi=10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.09.005|title=Denisova Admixture and the First Modern Human Dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania | journal=The American Journal of Human Genetics|pmid=21944045|pmc=3188841|year=2011|last1=Reich|first1=David|last2=Patterson|first2=Nick|last3=Kircher|first3=Martin|last4=Delfin|first4=Frederick|last5=Nandineni|first5=Madhusudan R.|last6=Pugach|first6=Irina|last7=Ko|first7=Albert Min-Shan|last8=Ko|first8=Ying-Chin|last9=Jinam|first9=Timothy A.|volume=89|issue=4|pages=516–28|postscript=<!-- Bot inserted parameter. Either remove it; or change its value to "." for the cite to end in a ".", as necessary. -->{{inconsistent citations}}}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Hebsgaard MB, Wiuf C, Gilbert MT, Glenner H, Willerslev E|title=Evaluating Neanderthal genetics and phylogeny|journal=J. Mol. Evol.|volume=64|issue=1|pages=50–60|year=2007|pmid=17146600|doi=10.1007/s00239-006-0017-y}}</ref> | |||
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] of the three ] of medieval society from the 13th-century {{lang|fr|Li Livres dou Santé}}|thumb|right|upright]] | |||
Following the ] in 476, Europe entered the ].<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Marx W, Haunschild R, Bornmann L |date=2018|title=Climate and the Decline and Fall of the Western Roman Empire: A Bibliometric View on an Interdisciplinary Approach to Answer a Most Classic Historical Question|journal=Climate|language=en|volume=6|issue=4|page=90|doi=10.3390/cli6040090|bibcode=2018Clim....6...90M |doi-access=free}}</ref> During this period, ] and the ] would provide centralized authority and education.<ref>{{cite book|veditors=Brooke JH, Numbers RL|title=Science and Religion Around the World|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=New York|isbn=978-0-19-532819-6|page=72|url={{GBurl|id=W6HPW1TodZwC|p=71}}|access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> In the Middle East, ] became the prominent religion and expanded into North Africa. It led to an ], inspiring achievements in ], the revival of old advances in science and technology, and the formation of a distinct way of life.<ref name="Renima-2016">{{cite book | vauthors = Renima A, Tiliouine H, Estes RJ | title = The State of Social Progress of Islamic Societies| chapter = The Islamic Golden Age: A Story of the Triumph of the Islamic Civilization|date=2016 |pages=25–52| veditors = Tiliouine H, Estes RJ |series=International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life|place=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-24774-8_2|isbn=978-3-319-24774-8 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Harper Atlas of World History| vauthors = Vidal-Nanquet P |publisher=Harper & Row Publishers|year=1987|page=76}}</ref> The ] and ]s would eventually clash, with the ], the ] and the ] declaring a series of ] to regain control of the ] from ]s.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Asbridge T |title=The Crusades: The War for the Holy Land|publisher=Simon and Schuster|year=2012|isbn=978-1-84983-770-5|chapter=Introduction: The world of the crusades}}</ref> | |||
In the Americas, between 200 and 900 CE ] was in its ],<ref>{{cite web |title=Classic and Postclassic Periods - Sam Noble Museum |url=https://samnoblemuseum.ou.edu/collections-and-research/ethnology/mayan-textiles/mayan-textiles-background/mayan-history/classic/ |access-date=27 May 2024 |date=3 November 2014}}</ref> while further north, complex ] would arise starting around 800 CE.<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url= https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-707|author= Adam King|title= Mississippian Period: Overview|encyclopedia= New Georgia Encyclopedia|date= 2002|access-date= 15 November 2009|archive-date= 19 August 2009|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090819042104/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-707|url-status= dead}}</ref> The ] would conquer much of ] in the 13th and 14th centuries.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = May T |title=The Mongol Conquests in World History| publisher=Reaktion Books |year=2013|isbn=978-1-86189-971-2 |page=7}}</ref> Over this same time period, the ] in Africa grew to be the largest empire on the continent, stretching from ] to ].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|vauthors=Canós-Donnay S|title=The Empire of Mali|date=25 February 2019|url=https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-266|encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.013.266|isbn=978-0-19-027773-4|access-date=7 May 2021|archive-date=20 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020034919/https://oxfordre.com/africanhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277734.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277734-e-266|url-status=live}}</ref> Oceania would see the rise of the ] which expanded across many islands in the South Pacific.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Canela SA, Graves MW |title=The Tongan Maritime Expansion: A Case in the Evolutionary Ecology of Social Complexity|journal=Asian Perspectives|volume=37|issue=2|pages=135–164|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46734826}}</ref> By the late 15th century, the ] and ] had become the dominant power in Mesoamerica and the ], respectively.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Conrad G, Demarest AA |title=Religion and Empire: The Dynamics of Aztec and Inca Expansionism|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1984|isbn=0-521-31896-3|page=2}}</ref> | |||
This dispersal ] is estimated to have begun about 70,000 years BP from northeast Africa. Current evidence suggests that there was only one such dispersal and that it only involved a few hundred individuals. The vast majority of humans stayed in Africa and adapted to diverse array of environments.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Vigilant et al.|title=African populations and the evolution of human mitochondrial DNA|journal=Science|year=1991|volume=253|issue=5027|pages=1503–1507}}</ref> Modern humans subsequently spread globally, replacing earlier hominins (either through competition or hybridization). They inhabited ] and ] by 40,000 years BP, and the Americas at least 14,500 years BP.<ref name=Wolman2008>{{cite journal |author=Wolman, David |date=April 3, 2008 |url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080403-first-americans.html |title=Fossil Feces Is Earliest Evidence of N. America Humans |publisher=news.nationalgeographic.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = Wood B | year = 1996 | title = Human evolution | url = | journal = BioEssays | volume = 18 | issue = 12| pages = 945–954 | doi = 10.1002/bies.950181204 | pmid = 8976151 }}</ref> | |||
===Modern=== | |||
===Transition to civilization=== | |||
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The ] in Europe and the Near East ({{Circa|1450}}–1800) began with the ], and the ].<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Ottomans and Europe|date=1 January 1994|chapter-url=https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004391659/BP000019.xml|title=Handbook of European History 1400–1600: Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation|pages=589–635|veditors=Brady T, Oberman T, Tracy JD|publisher=Brill|doi=10.1163/9789004391659_019|isbn=978-90-04-39165-9|access-date=17 April 2021|archive-date=2 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220502073325/https://brill.com/view/book/edcoll/9789004391659/BP000019.xml|url-status=live|last1=Kafadar |first1=Cemal }}</ref> Meanwhile, Japan entered the ],<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|vauthors=Goree R|title=The Culture of Travel in Edo-Period Japan|date=19 November 2020|url=https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-72|encyclopedia=Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.013.72|isbn=978-0-19-027772-7|access-date=7 May 2021|archive-date=12 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812150712/https://oxfordre.com/asianhistory/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190277727.001.0001/acrefore-9780190277727-e-72|url-status=live}}</ref> the ] rose in China<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Mosca MW|date=2010|title=CHINA'S LAST EMPIRE: The Great Qing|url=https://www.proquest.com/openview/a516602ac28aba8955507e46ab41483e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=25135|journal=Pacific Affairs|volume=83|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=6 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306014457/https://www.proquest.com/openview/a516602ac28aba8955507e46ab41483e/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=25135|url-status=live}}</ref> and the ] ruled much of India.<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Suyanta S, Ikhlas S|date=19 July 2016|title=Islamic Education at Mughal Kingdom in India (1526–1857)|url=https://journal.tarbiyahiainib.ac.id/index.php/attalim/article/view/228|journal=Al-Ta Lim Journal|volume=23|issue=2|pages=128–138|doi=10.15548/jt.v23i2.228|issn=2355-7893|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=7 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220407082504/http://journal.tarbiyahiainib.ac.id/index.php/attalim/article/view/228|url-status=live|doi-access=free}}</ref> Europe underwent the ], starting in the 15th century,<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Kirkpatrick R|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/893909816|title=The European Renaissance, 1400–1600|date=2002|isbn=978-1-317-88646-4|page=1|publisher=Routledge |oclc=893909816|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730032848/https://www.worldcat.org/title/european-renaissance-1400-1600/oclc/893909816|url-status=live}}</ref> and the ] began with the exploring and ] of new regions.<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Arnold D|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/859536800|title=The Age of Discovery, 1400–1600|date=2002|isbn=978-1-136-47968-7|edition=Second|pages=xi|publisher=Routledge |oclc=859536800|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730032848/https://www.worldcat.org/title/age-of-discovery-1400-1600/oclc/859536800|url-status=live}}</ref> This included the ]<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Dixon EJ |date= January 2001 |title=Human colonization of the Americas: timing, technology and process |journal=Quaternary Science Reviews|language=en|volume=20|issue=1–3 |pages=277–299|doi=10.1016/S0277-3791(00)00116-5|bibcode= 2001QSRv...20..277J }}</ref> and the ].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Keehnen |first1=Floris W. M. |last2=Mol |first2=Angus A. A. |title=The roots of the Columbian Exchange: an entanglement and network approach to early Caribbean encounter transactions |journal=Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology |date=2020 |volume=16 |issue=2–4 |pages=261–289 |doi=10.1080/15564894.2020.1775729 |pmid=34557059 |pmc=8452148 }}</ref> This expansion led to the ]<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Lovejoy PE |date=1989 |title=The Impact of the Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa: A Review of the Literature |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/182914 |journal=The Journal of African History |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=365–394 |doi=10.1017/S0021853700024439 |jstor=182914 |s2cid=161321949 |issn=0021-8537 |access-date=30 July 2022 |archive-date=6 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306011109/https://www.jstor.org/stable/182914 |url-status=live }}</ref> and the ].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Cave AA | chapter = Genocide in the Americas|date=2008 | title = The Historiography of Genocide|pages=273–295 | veditors = Stone D |place=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1057/9780230297784_11|isbn=978-0-230-29778-4}}</ref> This period also marked the ], with great advances in ], ], ] and ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Delisle RG | title = Can a revolution hide another one? Charles Darwin and the Scientific Revolution | journal = Endeavour | volume = 38 | issue = 3–4 | pages = 157–158 | date = September 2014 | pmid = 25457642 | doi = 10.1016/j.endeavour.2014.10.001 }}</ref> | |||
], and ] of animals, led to stable ].]] | |||
The ] (1800–present) saw the ] and ] bring such discoveries as ], major innovations in transport and ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Greatest Engineering Achievements of the 20th Century|url=https://www.greatachievements.org/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150406160644/https://greatachievements.org/|archive-date=6 April 2015|access-date=7 April 2015| work = National Academy of Engineering }}</ref> Influenced by ] ideals, the Americas and Europe experienced a period of political revolutions known as the ].<ref>{{cite web |title=Sister Revolutions: American Revolutions on Two Continents (Teaching with Historic Places) (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/articles/000/sister-revolutions-american-revolutions-on-two-continents-teaching-with-historic-places.htm |website=www.nps.gov |access-date=27 May 2024 |language=en}}</ref> The ] raged through Europe in the early 1800s,<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=O'Rourke KH|date=March 2006|title=The worldwide economic impact of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, 1793–1815|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S1740022806000076/type/journal_article|journal=Journal of Global History|language=en|volume=1|issue=1|pages=123–149|doi=10.1017/S1740022806000076|issn=1740-0228|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730032852/https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-global-history/article/abs/worldwide-economic-impact-of-the-french-revolutionary-and-napoleonic-wars-17931815/B5D21C47E53307E78358803D4695FCE8|url-status=live}}</ref> Spain lost most of its colonies in the ],<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Zimmerman AF|date=November 1931|title=Spain and Its Colonies, 1808–1820|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2506251|journal=The Hispanic American Historical Review|volume=11|issue=4|pages=439–463|doi=10.2307/2506251|jstor=2506251|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=6 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220306014948/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2506251|url-status=live}}</ref> while Europeans continued ]{{snd}}where European control went from 10% to almost 90% in less than 50 years<ref>{{cite web |date=2011 |title=British History in depth: Slavery and the 'Scramble for Africa' |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/scramble_for_africa_article_01.shtml |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324121231/https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/abolition/scramble_for_africa_article_01.shtml |archive-date=24 March 2022 |access-date=5 May 2021 |website=] |language=en-GB |vauthors=David S}}</ref>{{snd}}and Oceania.<ref>{{Cite journal |vauthors=Raudzens G |date=2004 |title=The Australian Frontier Wars, 1788–1838 (review) |url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jmh.2004.0138 |journal=The Journal of Military History |volume=68 |issue=3 |pages=957–959 |doi=10.1353/jmh.2004.0138 |issn=1543-7795 |s2cid=162259092}}</ref> In the 19th century, the ] expanded to become the ].<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Palan R|date=14 January 2010|title=International Financial Centers: The British-Empire, City-States and Commercially Oriented Politics|url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.2202/1565-3404.1239/html|journal=Theoretical Inquiries in Law|volume=11|issue=1|doi=10.2202/1565-3404.1239|s2cid=56216309|issn=1565-3404|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=26 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826211616/https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.2202/1565-3404.1239/html|url-status=live}}</ref>].]]A tenuous ] among European nations collapsed in 1914 with the outbreak of the ], one of the deadliest conflicts in history.<ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Clark CM|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/794136314|title=The sleepwalkers : how Europe went to war in 1914|date=2012|publisher=Allen Lane|isbn=978-0-7139-9942-6|location=London|chapter=Polarization of Europe, 1887–1907|oclc=794136314|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730032849/https://www.worldcat.org/title/sleepwalkers-how-europe-went-to-war-in-1914/oclc/794136314|url-status=live}}</ref> In the 1930s, ] led to the rise of ] regimes and a ], involving ].<ref>{{cite book |author=Robert Dahl |title=Democracy and Its Critics |url=https://archive.org/details/democracyitscrit00dahl_0 |url-access=registration |year=1989 |publisher=Yale UP |pages= |isbn=0-300-15355-4}}</ref> The war's destruction led to the collapse of most global empires, leading to widespread decolonization. | |||
Until c. 10,000 years ago, humans lived as ]s. They generally lived in small nomadic groups known as ]. The advent of agriculture prompted the ], when access to food surplus led to the formation of permanent ]s, the ] of animals and the ] for the first time in history. Agriculture encouraged ] and cooperation, and led to complex society. Because of the significance of this date for human society, it is the epoch of the ] or Human Era. | |||
Following the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945, the ]<ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Herring GC|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/299054528|title=From colony to superpower : U.S. foreign relations since 1776|date=2008|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-972343-0|location=New York|page=1|oclc=299054528|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730032849/https://www.worldcat.org/title/from-colony-to-superpower-us-foreign-relations-since-1776/oclc/299054528|url-status=live}}</ref> and the ] emerged as the remaining ]s. This led to a ] that saw a struggle for global influence, including a ] and a ], ending in the collapse of the Soviet Union.<ref>{{Cite journal| vauthors = McDougall WA |date=May 1985|title=Sputnik, the space race, and the Cold War|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.1985.11455962|journal=Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists|language=en|volume=41|issue=5|pages=20–25|doi=10.1080/00963402.1985.11455962|bibcode=1985BuAtS..41e..20M|issn=0096-3402}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Plous S|date=May 1993|title=The Nuclear Arms Race: Prisoner's Dilemma or Perceptual Dilemma?|url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343393030002004|journal=Journal of Peace Research|language=en|volume=30|issue=2|pages=163–179|doi=10.1177/0022343393030002004|s2cid=5482851|issn=0022-3433|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=21 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220221155825/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0022343393030002004|url-status=live}}</ref> The current ], spurred by the development of the ] and ] systems, sees the world becoming increasingly ] and interconnected.<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Sachs JD|date=April 2017|title=Globalization{{snd}}In the Name of Which Freedom?|journal=Humanistic Management Journal|language=en|volume=1|issue=2|pages=237–252|doi=10.1007/s41463-017-0019-5|s2cid=133030709|issn=2366-603X|doi-access=free}}</ref> | |||
About 6,000 years ago, the first proto-states developed in ], ]'s ] and the ]. Military forces were formed for protection, and government bureaucracies for administration. States cooperated and competed for resources, in some cases waging wars. Around 2,000–3,000 years ago, some states, such as ], ], ], ], and ], developed through conquest into the first expansive ]s. ] was the seminal civilization that laid the foundations of ], being the birthplace of Western ], ], major scientific and mathematical advances, the ], ] and ], as well as Western ], including both ] and ].<ref>{{cite book |title=Greek Ways: How the Greeks Created Western Civilization |last=Thornton |first=Bruce |year=2002 |publisher=Encounter Books |location=San Francisco, CA, USA |isbn=1-893554-57-0 |pages=1–14 |url=http://books.google.com/?id=fa6swJv64xkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Greek+Ways:+How+the+Greeks+Created+Western+Civilization#v=onepage&q=Greek%20Ways%3A%20How%20the%20Greeks%20Created%20Western%20Civilization&f=false }}</ref> Influential religions, such as ], originating in ], and ], originating in South Asia, also rose to prominence at this time. | |||
== Habitat and population == | |||
The late ] saw the rise of revolutionary ideas and technologies. In China, an advanced and urbanized society promoted innovations and sciences, such as ] and ]ing. In India, major advancements were made in mathematics, philosophy, religion and ]. The ] saw major scientific advancements in ] empires. In Europe, the rediscovery of ] learning and inventions such as the ] led to the ] in the 14th and 15th centuries. Over the next 500 years, ] and ] brought great parts of the world under European control, leading to later struggles for independence. The ] in the 17th century and the ] in the 18th–19th centuries promoted major innovations in transport, such as the railway and automobile; ], such as coal and electricity; and government, such as ] and ]. | |||
{{Further|Human geography| Demography}} | |||
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Early human settlements were dependent on proximity to ] and{{snd}}depending on the lifestyle{{snd}}other ]s used for ], such as populations of animal prey for ] and ] for growing crops and grazing livestock.<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Rector RK|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/953735302|title=The Early River Valley Civilizations|date=2016|isbn=978-1-4994-6329-3|edition=First|location=New York|page=10|oclc=953735302|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730032849/https://www.worldcat.org/title/early-river-valley-civilizations/oclc/953735302|url-status=live |publisher=Rosen Publishing }}</ref> Modern humans, however, have a great capacity for altering their ] by means of technology, ], ], construction, ] and ].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.westerville.k12.oh.us/userfiles/4188/Classes/7526/humanforcesthatchangeenvironment.pdf?id=448117 |title=How People Modify the Environment |author=<!--Not stated--> |publisher=] |access-date=13 March 2019 |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225132108/http://www.westerville.k12.oh.us/userfiles/4188/Classes/7526/humanforcesthatchangeenvironment.pdf?id=448117 |url-status=live }}</ref> ] continue to be ] to ], especially those placed in hazardous locations and with low quality of construction.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLACREGTOPHAZMAN/Resources/EN_Breve_Oct03_32_Nat_Dis_EN.pdf |title=Natural disasters and the urban poor |publisher=] |date=October 2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170809063303/https://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTLACREGTOPHAZMAN/Resources/EN_Breve_Oct03_32_Nat_Dis_EN.pdf |archive-date=9 August 2017 }}</ref> Grouping and deliberate habitat alteration is often done with the goals of providing protection, accumulating comforts or material wealth, expanding the available food, improving ], increasing knowledge or enhancing the exchange of resources.<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Habitat UN|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/889953315|title=The state of the world's cities 2012 / prosperity of cities.|date=2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-01559-6|location=|pages=x|oclc=889953315|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730032849/https://www.worldcat.org/title/state-of-the-worlds-cities-2012-prosperity-of-cities/oclc/889953315|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
With the advent of the ] at the end of the 20th century, modern humans live in a world that has become increasingly ] and interconnected. As of 2010, almost 2 billion humans are able to communicate with each other via the ],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm |title=Internet Usage Statistics – The Internet Big Picture |publisher=internetworldstats.com/ |accessdate=19 November 2010}}</ref> and 3.3 billion by ] subscriptions.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nL29172095 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20081217165448/http://investing.reuters.co.uk/news/articleinvesting.aspx?type=media&storyID=nL29172095 |archivedate=2008-12-17 |title=Reuters homepage |publisher=Reuters |accessdate=19 November 2010}}</ref> | |||
Humans are one of the most ] species, despite having a low or narrow tolerance for many of the earth's extreme environments.<ref name="Piantadosi-2003">{{cite book|vauthors=Piantadosi CA|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70215878|title=The biology of human survival : life and death in extreme environments|date=2003|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-974807-5|location=Oxford|pages=2–3|oclc=70215878|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730032850/https://www.worldcat.org/title/biology-of-human-survival-life-and-death-in-extreme-environments/oclc/70215878|url-status=live}}</ref> Currently the species is present in all eight ], although their presence in the ] is very limited to ] and annually there is a population decline in the winter months of this realm. Humans established nation-states in the other seven realms, such as ], ], ], ], ], ] and ] (each located in a different biogeographical realm). | |||
Although interconnection between humans has encouraged the growth of ], ], ], and ], it has also led to culture clashes and the development and use of ]. Human civilization has led to ] and ] significantly contributing to the ongoing ] of other forms of life called the ],<ref>{{cite journal |author=Pimm S, Raven P, Peterson A, Sekercioglu CH, Ehrlich PR |title=Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions |doi= 10.1073/pnas.0604181103 |journal=Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. |volume=103 |issue=29 |pages=10941–6 |year=2006 |pmid=16829570 |pmc=1544153}}<br />*{{cite journal |author=Barnosky AD, Koch PL, Feranec RS, Wing SL, Shabel AB |title=Assessing the causes of late Pleistocene extinctions on the continents |journal=Science |volume=306 |issue=5693 |pages=70–5 |year=2004 |pmid=15459379 |doi=10.1126/science.1101476 }}</ref> which may be further accelerated by ] in the future.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Lewis OT |title=Climate change, species-area curves and the extinction crisis |url=http://www.journals.royalsoc.ac.uk/content/711761513317h856/fulltext.pdf |format=PDF|journal=Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond., B, Biol. Sci. |volume=361 |issue=1465 |pages=163–71 |year=2006 |pmid=16553315 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2005.1712 |pmc=1831839}}</ref> | |||
By using advanced tools and ], humans have been able to extend their tolerance to a wide variety of temperatures, ], and altitudes.<ref name="Piantadosi-2003" /><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Toups |first1=M.A. |last2=Kitchen |first2=A. |last3=Light |first3=J.E. |last4=Reed |first4=D.L. |year=2011 |title=Origin of clothing lice indicates early clothing use by anatomically modern humans in Africa |journal=Molecular Biology and Evolution |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=29–32 |doi=10.1093/molbev/msq234 |pmc=3002236 |pmid=20823373}}</ref> As a result, humans are a ] species found in almost all regions of the world, including ], ], extremely cold ]s, and heavily polluted cities; in comparison, most other species are confined to a few geographical areas by their limited adaptability.<ref>{{cite web |vauthors=O'Neil D |title=Human Biological Adaptability; Overview |url=https://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_1.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130306124405/https://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_1.htm |archive-date=6 March 2013 |access-date=6 January 2013 |publisher=Palomar College}}</ref> The ] is not, however, uniformly distributed on the ]'s surface, because the population density varies from one region to another, and large stretches of surface are almost completely uninhabited, like ] and vast swathes of the ocean.<ref name="Piantadosi-2003" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/population/population_distribution_rev1.shtml |publisher=BBC |title=Population distribution and density |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170623234027/https://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geography/population/population_distribution_rev1.shtml |archive-date=23 June 2017 |access-date=26 June 2017 }}</ref> Most humans (61%) live in Asia; the remainder live in the Americas (14%), Africa (14%), Europe (11%), and Oceania (0.5%).<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Bunn SE, Arthington AH |title=Basic principles and ecological consequences of altered flow regimes for aquatic biodiversity |journal=] |volume=30 |issue=4 |pages=492–507 |date=October 2002 |pmid=12481916 |doi=10.1007/s00267-002-2737-0 |bibcode=2002EnMan..30..492B |hdl-access=free |s2cid=25834286 |hdl=10072/6758}}</ref> | |||
==Habitat and population== | |||
{{Further|Human migration|Demography|World population}} | |||
], as seen from ] in October 2000, showing the extent of human occupation of the planet. The bright lights signify both the most densely inhabited areas and ones financially capable of illuminating those areas.]] | |||
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Early human settlements were dependent on proximity to ] and, depending on the ], other ] used for ], such as populations of animal prey for ] and ] for growing crops and grazing ]. But humans have a great capacity for altering their ] by means of technology, through ], ], ], ], ] goods, ] and ]. Deliberate habitat alteration is often done with the goals of increasing material ], increasing ], improving the amount of food available, improving ], or improving ease of access to resources or other human settlements. With the advent of large-scale trade and ], proximity to these resources has become unnecessary, and in many places, these factors are no longer a driving force behind the growth and decline of a population. Nonetheless, the manner in which a habitat is altered is often a major determinant in population change. | |||
Estimates of the population at the time agriculture emerged in around 10,000 BC have ranged between 1 million and 15 million.<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Tellier LN |url={{GBurl|id=cXuCjDbxC1YC|p=26}} |title=Urban world history: an economic and geographical perspective |date=2009 |isbn=978-2-7605-1588-8 |page=26 |publisher=Presses de l'Université du Québec |access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Thomlinson R |title=Demographic problems; controversy over population control. |date=1975 |edition=2nd |publisher=Dickenson Pub. Co |location=Ecino, CA |isbn=978-0-8221-0166-6}}</ref> Around 50–60 million people lived in the combined eastern and western ] in the 4th century AD.<ref>{{cite web |vauthors=Harl KW |date=1998 |title=Population estimates of the Roman Empire |url=https://www.tulane.edu/~august/H303/handouts/Population.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507061006/https://www.tulane.edu/~august/H303/handouts/Population.htm|archive-date=7 May 2016|access-date=8 December 2012|publisher=Tulane.edu}}</ref> ]s, first recorded in the 6th century AD, reduced the population by 50%, with the ] killing 75–200 million people in ] and ] alone.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Zietz BP, Dunkelberg H | title = The history of the plague and the research on the causative agent Yersinia pestis |journal = International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health |volume=207 |issue=2 |pages=165–178 | date = February 2004 | pmid = 15031959 | doi = 10.1078/1438-4639-00259 |pmc=7128933| bibcode = 2004IJHEH.207..165Z }}</ref> Human population is believed to have reached one billion in 1800. It has since then increased exponentially, reaching two billion in 1930 and three billion in 1960, four in 1975, five in 1987 and six billion in 1999.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/411162.stm |access-date=5 February 2008 |work=BBC News |title=World's population reaches six billion |date=5 August 1999 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415053354/https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/411162.stm |archive-date=15 April 2008 }}</ref> It passed seven billion in 2011<ref>{{Cite web |author=United Nations |title=World population to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022 |url=https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-reach-8-billion-15-november-2022 |access-date=27 October 2022 |website=United Nations |language=en |archive-date=20 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120024524/https://www.un.org/en/desa/world-population-reach-8-billion-15-november-2022 |url-status=live }}</ref> and passed eight billion in November 2022.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03792-4 |date=23 November 2022 |title=Eight billion people, SARS-CoV-2 ancestor and illegal fishing |journal=] |volume=611 |issue=641 |page=641 |doi=10.1038/d41586-022-03792-4 |bibcode=2022Natur.611..641. |s2cid=253764233 |access-date=26 January 2023 |archive-date=26 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230126011511/https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03792-4 |url-status=live }}</ref> It took over two million years of ] and ] for the human population to reach one ] and only 207 years more to grow to 7 billion.<ref>{{cite web |date=27 October 2011 |title=World Population to Hit Milestone With Birth of 7 Billionth Person |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world-july-dec11-population1_10-27/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924090953/http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world-july-dec11-population1_10-27/ |archive-date=24 September 2017 |access-date=11 February 2018 |website=PBS NewsHour}}</ref> The combined ] of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals.<ref name="Bar-On">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bar-On YM, Phillips R, Milo R | title = The biomass distribution on Earth | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 115 | issue = 25 | pages = 6506–6511 | date = June 2018 | pmid = 29784790 | pmc = 6016768 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1711842115 | bibcode = 2018PNAS..115.6506B | doi-access = free }}</ref> | |||
Technology has allowed humans to colonize all of the continents and adapt to virtually all climates. Within the last century, humans have explored ], the ocean depths, and ], although large-scale colonization of these environments is not yet feasible. With a population of over seven billion, humans are among the most numerous of the large mammals. Most humans (61%) live in Asia. The remainder live in the Americas (14%), Africa (14%), Europe (11%), and Oceania (0.5%).{{Citation needed|date=February 2012}} | |||
In 2018, 4.2 billion humans (55%) lived in urban areas, up from 751 million in 1950.<ref name="United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)-2018">{{cite web|date=16 May 2018|title=68% of the world population projected to live in urban areas by 2050, says UN|work=United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)|url=https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html|access-date=18 April 2021|language=en-US|archive-date=10 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310163911/https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The most urbanized regions are Northern America (82%), Latin America (81%), Europe (74%) and Oceania (68%), with Africa and Asia having nearly 90% of the world's 3.4 billion rural population.<ref name="United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA)-2018" /> Problems for humans living in cities include various forms of pollution and ],<ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Duhart DT |date=October 2000 |title=Urban, Suburban, and Rural Victimization, 1993–98 |publisher=], Bureau of Justice Statistics |access-date=1 October 2006 |url=https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/usrv98.pdf |archive-date=24 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130224090226/http://bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/usrv98.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref> especially in inner city and suburban ]s. | |||
Human habitation within ]s in hostile environments, such as Antarctica and outer space, is expensive, typically limited in duration, and restricted to scientific, military, or industrial expeditions. Life in space has been very sporadic, with no more than thirteen humans in space at any given time.<ref>{{cite web|author=Nancy Atkinson |url=http://www.universetoday.com/27924/soyuz-rockets-to-space-13-humans-now-in-orbit/ |title=Soyuz Rockets to Space; 13 Humans Now in Orbit |publisher=Universetoday.com |date=2009-03-26 |accessdate=2011-12-10}}</ref> Between 1969 and 1972, two humans at a time spent brief intervals on the ]. As of {{Monthyear}}, no other celestial body has been visited by humans, although there has been a continuous human presence in space since the launch of the initial crew to inhabit the ] on October 31, 2000.<ref name="urlNASA">{{cite web |author=Kraft, Rachel |title=JSC celebrates ten years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station |url=http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/jscfeatures/articles/000000945.html |publisher=] |work=JSC Features |date=December 11, 2010}}</ref> However, other celestial bodies have been visited by human-made objects. | |||
== Biology == | |||
Since 1800, the ] has increased from one billion<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/411162.stm | accessdate = February 5, 2008 | work=BBC News | title=World's population reaches six billion | date=August 5, 1999}}</ref> to over seven billion,<ref name=7billpop>{{cite web|title=UN population estimates.|url=http://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/unpp/p2k0data.asp|work=Population Division, United Nations|accessdate=4 July 2013}}</ref> In 2004, some 2.5 billion out of 6.3 billion people (39.7%) lived in ]s. In February 2008, the U.N. estimated that half the world's population would live in ]s by the end of the year.<ref>{{cite news | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4561183.stm | work=BBC News | first=David | last=Whitehouse | title=Half of humanity set to go urban | date=May 19, 2005}}</ref> Problems for humans living in ] include various forms of pollution and ],<ref> U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics,. Accessed 29 Oct 2006</ref> especially in inner city and suburban ]s. Both overall population numbers and the proportion residing in cities are expected to increase significantly in the coming decades.<ref name=UN-pop-all>{{cite web|title=World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision|url=http://esa.un.org/unup/CD-ROM/Urban-Rural-Population.htm|work=Population Division, United Nations|accessdate=4 July 2013}}</ref> | |||
=== Anatomy and physiology === | |||
Humans have had a dramatic effect on the ]. Humans are ]s, being rarely preyed upon by other species.<ref>'']'' (1998). .</ref> Currently, through land development, combustion of ], and pollution, humans are thought to be the main contributor to global ].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/007.htm |title=Climate Change 2001: Working Group I: The Scientific Basis |publisher=grida.no/ |accessdate=2007-05-30}}</ref> If this continues at its current rate it is predicted that climate change will wipe out half of all species over the next century.<ref>]. . ''AAAS Atlas of Population & Environment''.</ref><ref>] (2002). ''in The Future of Life''.</ref> | |||
{{Main|Human body}} | |||
] and male ] removed and head hair trimmed.]] | |||
Most aspects of human physiology are closely ] to corresponding aspects of animal physiology. The ] of humans is: {{DentalFormula|upper=2.1.2.3|lower=2.1.2.3}}. Humans have proportionately shorter ]s and much smaller ] than other primates. They are the only primates to have short, relatively flush ]. Humans have characteristically crowded teeth, with gaps from lost teeth usually closing up quickly in young individuals. Humans are gradually losing their ], with some individuals having them congenitally absent.<ref name="Revolution">{{cite book| vauthors = Collins D |url=https://archive.org/details/humanrevolutionf0000coll|title=The Human Revolution: From Ape to Artist|year=1976|isbn=978-0-7148-1676-0|page=|publisher=Phaidon |url-access=registration}}</ref> | |||
Humans share with chimpanzees a ] tail,<ref>{{cite news |last=Weisberger |first=Mindy |title=Why don't humans have tails? Scientists find answers in an unlikely place |url=https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/humans-tails-genetic-mutation-junk-dna-scn/index.html |date=23 March 2024 |work=] |url-status=live |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20240324031927/https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/humans-tails-genetic-mutation-junk-dna-scn/index.html |archivedate=24 March 2024 |accessdate=24 March 2024 }}</ref> ], flexible shoulder joints, grasping fingers and ]s.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Marks JM |title=Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History|date=2001|publisher=Transaction Publishers|isbn=978-0-202-36656-2|page=16|language=en}}</ref> Humans also have a more barrel-shaped chests in contrast to the funnel shape of other apes, an adaptation for bipedal respiration.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Gea|first1=J|year=2008|title=The Evolution of the Human Species: A Long Journey for the Respiratory System|journal=Archivos de Bronconeumología ((English Edition))|volume=44|issue=5|pages=263–270|doi=10.1016/S1579-2129(08)60042-7|pmid=18448018}}</ref> Apart from bipedalism and brain size, humans differ from chimpanzees mostly in ], ] and ].<ref name="O'Neil" /> While humans have a density of ]s comparable to other apes, it is predominantly ], most of which is so short and wispy as to be practically invisible.<ref>{{cite news|date=2017|title=How to be Human: The reason we are so scarily hairy|work=New Scientist|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631460-700-why-are-humans-so-hairy/|access-date=29 April 2020|archive-date=25 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225235006/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631460-700-why-are-humans-so-hairy/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sandel AA | title = Brief communication: Hair density and body mass in mammals and the evolution of human hairlessness | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 152 | issue = 1 | pages = 145–150 | date = September 2013 | pmid = 23900811 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.22333 | hdl-access = free | hdl = 2027.42/99654 }}</ref> Humans have about 2 million ]s spread over their entire bodies, many more than chimpanzees, whose sweat glands are scarce and are mainly located on the palm of the hand and on the soles of the feet.<ref>{{cite web| vauthors = Kirchweger G |title=The Biology of Skin Color: Black and White|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/3/text_pop/l_073_04.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130216070146/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/3/text_pop/l_073_04.html|archive-date=16 February 2013|access-date=6 January 2013|date=2 February 2001|work=Evolution: Library|publisher=PBS}}</ref> | |||
{{See also|City|Town|Nomad|Camping|Farm|House|Watercraft|Infrastructure|Architecture|Building|Engineering}} | |||
It is estimated that the worldwide average ] male is about {{Height|cm=171|precision=0}}, while the worldwide average height for adult human females is about {{Height|cm=159|precision=0}}.<ref>{{cite journal|author1=Roser M| author1-link=Max Roser |author2=Appel C| author3=Ritchie H| author3-link=Hannah Ritchie |date=8 October 2013|title=Human Height|url=https://ourworldindata.org/human-height|journal=Our World in Data|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130203158/https://ourworldindata.org/human-height|url-status=live}}</ref> Shrinkage of stature may begin in middle age in some individuals but tends to be typical in the extremely ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Senior Citizens Do Shrink – Just One of the Body Changes of Aging|url=https://seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Aging/5-11-28-SeniorsDoShrink.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219004303/https://seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Aging/5-11-28-SeniorsDoShrink.htm|archive-date=19 February 2013|access-date=6 January 2013|work=News|publisher=Senior Journal}}</ref> Throughout history, human populations have universally become taller, probably as a consequence of better nutrition, healthcare, and living conditions.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bogin B, Rios L | title = Rapid morphological change in living humans: implications for modern human origins | journal = Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part A, Molecular & Integrative Physiology | volume = 136 | issue = 1 | pages = 71–84 | date = September 2003 | pmid = 14527631 | doi = 10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00294-5 }}</ref> The average ] of an adult human is {{Convert|59|kg|lb|abbr=on}} for females and {{Convert|77|kg|lb|abbr=on}} for males.<ref>{{cite web|title=Human weight|url=https://www.articleworld.org/index.php/Human_weight|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111208053451/https://articleworld.org/index.php/Human_weight|archive-date=8 December 2011|access-date=10 December 2011|publisher=Articleworld.org}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Schlessingerman A | date = 2003 |title=Mass Of An Adult|url=https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/AlexSchlessingerman.shtml|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180101030223/https://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/AlexSchlessingerman.shtml|archive-date=1 January 2018|access-date=31 December 2017|publisher=The Physics Factbook: An Encyclopedia of Scientific Essays}}</ref> Like many other conditions, body weight and body type are influenced by both ] and environment and varies greatly among individuals.<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Kushner R|url={{GBurl|id=vWjK5etS7PMC|p=121}}|title=Treatment of the Obese Patient (Contemporary Endocrinology)|publisher=Humana Press|year=2007|isbn=978-1-59745-400-1|location=Totowa, NJ|page=158|access-date=5 April 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Adams JP, Murphy PG | title = Obesity in anaesthesia and intensive care | journal = British Journal of Anaesthesia | volume = 85 | issue = 1 | pages = 91–108 | date = July 2000 | pmid = 10927998 | doi = 10.1093/bja/85.1.91 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | |||
==Biology== | |||
] and ] humans. These models have had ] and male ] removed and head hair trimmed. The female model is wearing red ] on her ] and a ].]] | |||
], ]'s image is often used as an implied symbol of the essential symmetry of the human body, and by extension, of the universe as a whole.]] | |||
Humans have a far faster and more accurate ] than other animals.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Lombardo MP, Deaner RO |date=March 2018|title=Born to Throw: The Ecological Causes that Shaped the Evolution of Throwing In Humans |journal=The Quarterly Review of Biology|language=en|volume=93|issue=1|pages=1–16|doi=10.1086/696721|s2cid=90757192|issn=0033-5770}}</ref> Humans are also among the best long-distance runners in the animal kingdom, but slower over short distances.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/health/27well.html |work=The New York Times |title=The Human Body Is Built for Distance | vauthors = Parker-Pope T |author-link1=Tara Parker-Pope |date=27 October 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151105211812/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/health/27well.html |archive-date=5 November 2015 }}</ref><ref name="O'Neil">{{cite web | vauthors = O'Neil D |title=Humans |url=https://anthro.palomar.edu/primate/prim_8.htm |work=Primates |publisher=Palomar College |access-date=6 January 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130111004211/https://anthro.palomar.edu/primate/prim_8.htm |archive-date=11 January 2013 }}</ref> Humans' thinner body hair and more productive sweat glands help avoid ] while running for long distances.<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = John B |title=What is the role of sweating glands in balancing body temperature when running a marathon? |url=https://www.livestrong.com/article/514545-what-is-the-role-of-sweat-glands-in-balancing-body-temperature-when-running-a-marathon/ |publisher=Livestrong.com |access-date=6 January 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131184339/https://www.livestrong.com/article/514545-what-is-the-role-of-sweat-glands-in-balancing-body-temperature-when-running-a-marathon/ |archive-date=31 January 2013 }}</ref> Compared to other apes, the human ] produces greater ] and ] and the ] is proportionately larger.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Shave|first1=R. E.|last2=Lieberman|first2=D. E.|last3=Drane|first3=A. L.|display-authors=etal|year=2019|title=Selection of endurance capabilities and the trade-off between pressure and volume in the evolution of the human heart|journal=PNAS|volume=116|issue=40|pages=19905–19910|doi=10.1073/pnas.1906902116|doi-access=free |pmid=31527253 |pmc=6778238|bibcode=2019PNAS..11619905S }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Ríos|first1=L|last2=Sleeper|first2=M. M.|last3=Danforth|first3=M. D.|display-authors=etal|year=2023|title=The aorta in humans and African great apes, and cardiac output and metabolic levels in human evolution|journal=Scientific Reports|volume=13|issue=6841|page=6841|doi=10.1038/s41598-023-33675-1|pmid=37100851|pmc=10133235|bibcode=2023NatSR..13.6841R|hdl=10261/309357|hdl-access=free}}</ref> | |||
===Anatomy and physiology=== | |||
{{Main|Human anatomy|Human physiology}} | |||
{{Further|Human physical appearance|Anatomically modern humans|Sex differences in humans}} | |||
Most aspects of human physiology are closely ] to corresponding aspects of ] physiology. The human body consists of the ], the ], the ]s, the ], and the ]. An ] human ] consists of approximately 100 trillion ]s. Most commonly defined ] in humans are the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], the ], and the ].<ref name=Greg_Roza> Inside the human body: using scientific and exponential notation. Author: Greg Roza. Edition: Illustrated. Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, 2007. ISBN 1-4042-3362-8, ISBN 978-1-4042-3362-1. Length: 32pages</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Human Anatomy|url=http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html|publisher=Inner Body|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> | |||
=== Genetics === | |||
Humans, like most of the other ], lack external ], have several ] systems, ]s, and are ]. The comparatively minor anatomical differences between humans and ]s are a result of human ]. As a result, humans are slower over short distances, but are among the best long-distance runners in the animal kingdom.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/health/27well.html | work=The New York Times | title=The Human Body Is Built for Distance | first=Tara | last=Parker-Pope | date=October 27, 2009}}</ref><ref name="O'Neil">{{cite web|last=O'Neil|first=Dennis|title=Humans|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/primate/prim_8.htm|work=Primates|publisher=Palomar College|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> Humans' thinner body hair and more productive ]s help avoid ] while running for long distances.<ref>{{cite web|last=John|first=Brenman|title=What is the role of sweating glands in balancing body temperature when running a marathon?|url=http://www.livestrong.com/article/514545-what-is-the-role-of-sweat-glands-in-balancing-body-temperature-when-running-a-marathon/|publisher=Livestrong.com|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> | |||
As a consequence of bipedalism human females have narrower ]s. The construction of the ] differs from other ]s, as do the ]s. A trade-off for these advantages of the modern human pelvis is that ] is more difficult and dangerous than in most ]s, especially given the larger head size of human ] compared to other primates. This means that human babies must turn around as they pass through the birth canal which other primates do not do, and it makes humans the only species where females require help from their conspecifics to reduce the risks of birthing. As a partial ]ary solution, human fetuses are born less developed and more vulnerable. Chimpanzee babies are cognitively more developed than human babies until the age of six months when the rapid development of human brains surpasses chimpanzees’. Another difference between women and chimpanzee females is that women go through ] and become ] decades before the end of their lives. All non-human apes are capable of giving birth until ]. Menopause has probably developed among aged women as it has provided an evolutionary advantage (more caring time) to young relatives.<ref name="O'Neil"/> | |||
Other than bipedalism, humans differ from chimpanzees mostly in ], ], ] ]s, ], and the ability of ]. Humans have about three times bigger ] than chimpanzees. More importantly, the brain to body ratio is much higher in humans than in chimpanzees and humans have a significantly more developed ] with a larger number of ]. The mental abilities of humans are remarkable compared to other apes. Humans’ ability of ] is unique among primates. Humans are able to create new and complex ]s, and to develop ], which is unprecedented among other ]s on ].<ref name="O'Neil"/> | |||
The average human male is about {{convert|1.7|-|1.8|m|ft}}, the average human female is about {{convert|1.6|-|1.7|m|ft}} in ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Human body|url=http://www.human-body.org/|work=The Human Body|publisher=www.human-body.org|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> Shrinkage of stature may begin in middle age in some individuals but tends to be universal in the extremely ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Senior Citizens Do Shrink – Just One of the Body Changes of Aging|url=http://seniorjournal.com/NEWS/Aging/5-11-28-SeniorsDoShrink.htm|work=News|publisher=Senior Journal|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> Through history human populations universally became taller, probably as a consequence of better ], ], and living conditions.<ref>{{Cite journal|author=Bogin B, Rios L |title=Rapid morphological change in living humans: implications for modern human origins |journal=Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology. Part a, Molecular & Integrative Physiology |volume=136 |issue=1 |pages=71–84 |year=2003 |month=September |pmid=14527631 |doi=10.1016/S1095-6433(02)00294-5}}</ref> The average ] of an adult human is 54–64 kg (120–140 lbs) for females and 76–83 kg (168–183 lbs) for males.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.articleworld.org/index.php/Human_weight |title=Human weight|publisher=Articleworld.org |date= |accessdate=2011-12-10}}</ref> Like many other conditions, body weight and body type is influenced by both genetic susceptibility and environment and varies greatly among individuals. (see ])<ref>{{cite book |author=Kushner, Robert |title=Treatment of the Obese Patient (Contemporary Endocrinology) |publisher=Humana Press |location=Totowa, NJ |year=2007 |page=158 |isbn=1-59745-400-1 |url=http://books.google.com/?id=vWjK5etS7PMC&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=measurement+of+metabolism+in+obese+Bessesen |doi= |accessdate=April 5, 2009}}</ref><ref name=Anes2000>{{cite journal |author=Adams JP, Murphy PG |title=Obesity in anaesthesia and intensive care |journal=Br J Anaesth |volume=85 |issue=1 |pages=91–108 |year=2000 |month=July |pmid=10927998 |doi= 10.1093/bja/85.1.91|url=http://bja.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/85/1/91}}</ref> | |||
Although humans appear hairless compared to other primates, with notable ] growth occurring chiefly on the top of the head, underarms and pubic area, the average human has more ]s on his or her body than the average chimpanzee. The main distinction is that human hairs are shorter, finer, and less heavily pigmented than the average chimpanzee's, thus making them harder to see.<ref>''Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Way'' by Nicholas Wade, ''New York Times'', August 19, 2003.</ref> Humans have about 2 million sweat glands spread over their entire bodies, much more than that of the chimpanzees whose sweat glands are scarce and are mainly located on the palm of the hand and on the soles of the feet.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kirchweger|first=Gina|title=The Biology of Skin Color: Black and White|url=http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/3/text_pop/l_073_04.html|work=Evolution: Library|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> | |||
The ] of humans is: {{DentalFormula|upper=2.1.2.3|lower=2.1.2.3}}. Humans have proportionately shorter ]s and much smaller ] than other primates. They are the only primates to have short, relatively flush ]. Humans have characteristically crowded teeth, with gaps from lost teeth usually closing up quickly in young individuals. Humans are gradually losing their ], with some individuals having them congenitally absent.<ref name="Revolution">{{cite book | author = Collins, Desmond |url = | title = The Human Revolution: From Ape to Artist | year = 1976 | page = 208 }}</ref> | |||
===Genetics=== | |||
{{Main|Human genetics}} | {{Main|Human genetics}} | ||
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Like most animals, humans are a ] and ] species. Each ] has two sets of 23 ]s, each set received from one parent; ]s have only one set of chromosomes, which is a mixture of the two parental sets. Among the 23 pairs of chromosomes, there are 22 pairs of ]s and one pair of ]. Like other mammals, humans have an ], so that females have the sex chromosomes XX and males have XY.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Therman E |title=Human Chromosomes: Structure, Behavior, Effects |date=1980 |publisher=] |pages=112–124 |isbn=978-1-4684-0109-7 |doi=10.1007/978-1-4684-0107-3|s2cid=36686283 }}</ref> ]s and ] influence human biological variation in visible characteristics, physiology, disease susceptibility and mental abilities. The exact influence of ] on certain traits is not well understood.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Edwards JH, Dent T, Kahn J | title = Monozygotic twins of different sex | journal = Journal of Medical Genetics | volume = 3 | issue = 2 | pages = 117–123 | date = June 1966 | pmid = 6007033 | pmc = 1012913 | doi = 10.1136/jmg.3.2.117 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Machin GA | title = Some causes of genotypic and phenotypic discordance in monozygotic twin pairs | journal = American Journal of Medical Genetics | volume = 61 | issue = 3 | pages = 216–228 | date = January 1996 | pmid = 8741866 | doi = 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960122)61:3<216::AID-AJMG5>3.0.CO;2-S }}</ref> | ||
While no humans{{snd}}not even ]{{snd}}are genetically identical,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jonsson H, Magnusdottir E, Eggertsson HP, Stefansson OA, Arnadottir GA, Eiriksson O, Zink F, Helgason EA, Jonsdottir I, Gylfason A, Jonasdottir A, Jonasdottir A, Beyter D, Steingrimsdottir T, Norddahl GL, Magnusson OT, Masson G, Halldorsson BV, Thorsteinsdottir U, Helgason A, Sulem P, Gudbjartsson DF, Stefansson K | display-authors = 6 | title = Differences between germline genomes of monozygotic twins | journal = Nature Genetics | volume = 53 | issue = 1 | pages = 27–34 | date = January 2021 | pmid = 33414551 | doi = 10.1038/s41588-020-00755-1 | s2cid = 230986741 }}</ref> two humans on average will have a genetic similarity of 99.5%-99.9%.<ref>{{cite web|title=Genetic – Understanding Human Genetic Variation|url=https://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/genetic/guide/genetic_variation1.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825143543/https://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/genetic/guide/genetic_variation1.htm|archive-date=25 August 2013|access-date=13 December 2013|work=Human Genetic Variation|publisher=National Institute of Health (NIH)|quote=Between any two humans, the amount of genetic variation{{snd}}biochemical individuality{{snd}}is about 0.1%.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Levy S, Sutton G, Ng PC, Feuk L, Halpern AL, Walenz BP, Axelrod N, Huang J, Kirkness EF, Denisov G, Lin Y, MacDonald JR, Pang AW, Shago M, Stockwell TB, Tsiamouri A, Bafna V, Bansal V, Kravitz SA, Busam DA, Beeson KY, McIntosh TC, Remington KA, Abril JF, Gill J, Borman J, Rogers YH, Frazier ME, Scherer SW, Strausberg RL, Venter JC | display-authors = 6 | title = The diploid genome sequence of an individual human | journal = PLOS Biology | volume = 5 | issue = 10 | pages = e254 | date = September 2007 | pmid = 17803354 | pmc = 1964779 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050254 | doi-access = free }}</ref> This makes them more ] than other great apes, including chimpanzees.<ref name="REGWG2005">{{cite journal | vauthors = ((Race, Ethnicity, and Genetics Working Group)) | title = The use of racial, ethnic, and ancestral categories in human genetics research | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 77 | issue = 4 | pages = 519–532 | date = October 2005 | pmid = 16175499 | pmc = 1275602 | doi = 10.1086/491747 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Chimps show much greater genetic diversity than humans|url=https://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120302.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218091207/https://www.ox.ac.uk/media/news_stories/2012/120302.html|archive-date=18 December 2013|access-date=13 December 2013|work=Media|publisher=University of Oxford}}</ref> This small variation in human DNA compared to many other species suggests a ] during the ] (around 100,000 years ago), in which the human population was reduced to a small number of breeding pairs.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Harpending HC, Batzer MA, Gurven M, Jorde LB, Rogers AR, Sherry ST | title = Genetic traces of ancient demography | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 95 | issue = 4 | pages = 1961–1967 | date = February 1998 | pmid = 9465125 | pmc = 19224 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.95.4.1961 | bibcode = 1998PNAS...95.1961H | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jorde LB, Rogers AR, Bamshad M, Watkins WS, Krakowiak P, Sung S, Kere J, Harpending HC | display-authors = 6 | title = Microsatellite diversity and the demographic history of modern humans | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 94 | issue = 7 | pages = 3100–3103 | date = April 1997 | pmid = 9096352 | pmc = 20328 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.94.7.3100 | bibcode = 1997PNAS...94.3100J | doi-access = free }}</ref> The forces of ] have continued to operate on human populations, with evidence that certain regions of the ] display ] in the past 15,000 years.<ref>{{cite news| vauthors = Wade N |date=7 March 2007|title=Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/science/07evolve.html|url-status=live|access-date=13 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120114232231/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/science/07evolve.html|archive-date=14 January 2012}}</ref> | |||
One ] was sequenced in full in 2003, and currently efforts are being made to achieve a sample of the genetic diversity of the species (see ]). By present estimates, humans have approximately 22,000 genes.<ref name=Pertea2010>{{cite journal |author=Pertea, Mihaela; Salzberg, Steven L. |title=Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes |journal=Genome Biology |year=2010 |volume=11 |issue=5 |page=206 |doi=10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-206 |pmc=2898077 |pmid=20441615}}</ref> The variation in human DNA is minute compared to that of other species, possibly suggesting a ] during the ] (ca. 100,000 years ago), in which the human population was reduced to a small number of breeding pairs.<ref name=Harpending1998>{{cite journal |author=Harpending HC, Batzer MA, Gurven M, Jorde LB, Rogers AR, Sherry ST. |title=Genetic traces of ancient demography |journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci USA |year=1998 |volume=95 |issue=4 |pages=1961–7 |pmid=9465125 |url=http://www.pnas.org/content/95/4/1961.full.pdf |format=PDF |pmc=19224 |doi=10.1073/pnas.95.4.1961}}</ref><ref name=Jorde1997>{{cite journal |author=Jorde LB, Rogers AR, Bamshad M, Watkins WS, Krakowiak P, Sung S, Kere J, Harpending HC. |title=Microsatellite diversity and the demographic history of modern humans |journal=Proc Natl Acad Sci USA |year=1997 |volume=94 |issue=7 |pages=3100–3 |pmid=9096352 |url=http://www.pnas.org/content/94/7/3100.full.pdf |format=PDF |pmc=20328 |doi=10.1073/pnas.94.7.3100}}</ref> ] is based on single mutations called ] (SNPs). The nucleotide diversity between humans is about 0.1%, which is 1 difference per 1,000 ]s.<ref name=Jorde04>{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/ng1435 |author=Jorde, Lynn B.; Wooding, Stephen P. |title=Genetic variation, classification and race |journal=Nature Genetics |volume=36 |issue=11 Suppl |pages=S28–S33 |year=2004 |url=http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1435.html |pmid=15508000}}</ref><ref name=Tishkoff04>{{cite journal |author=Tishkoff SA, Kidd KK |title=Implications of biogeography of human populations for 'race' and medicine |journal=Nat. Genet. |volume=36 |issue=11 Suppl |pages=S21–7 |year=2004 |month=November |pmid=15507999 |doi=10.1038/ng1438 |url=http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1438.html}}</ref><!-- <ref>http://shrn.stanford.edu/workshops/revisitingrace/Bamshadetal2004.pdf</ref> --> A difference of 1 in 1,000 ]s between two humans chosen at random amounts to approximately 3 million nucleotide differences since the human genome has about 3 billion nucleotides. Most of these SNPs are ] but some (about 3 to 5%) are functional and influence ] differences between humans through ]. | |||
The ] was first sequenced in 2001<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Pennisi E | author-link=Elizabeth Pennisi | title = The human genome | journal = Science | volume = 291 | issue = 5507 | pages = 1177–1180 | date = February 2001 | pmid = 11233420 | doi = 10.1126/science.291.5507.1177 | s2cid = 38355565 }}</ref> and by 2020 hundreds of thousands of genomes had been sequenced.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rotimi CN, Adeyemo AA | title = From one human genome to a complex tapestry of ancestry | journal = Nature | volume = 590 | issue = 7845 | pages = 220–221 | date = February 2021 | pmid = 33568827 | doi = 10.1038/d41586-021-00237-2 | bibcode = 2021Natur.590..220R | s2cid = 231882262 }}</ref> In 2012 the ] had compared the genomes of 1,184 individuals from 11 populations and identified 1.6 million ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Altshuler DM, Gibbs RA, Peltonen L, Altshuler DM, Gibbs RA, Peltonen L, Dermitzakis E, Schaffner SF, Yu F, Peltonen L, Dermitzakis E, Bonnen PE, Altshuler DM, Gibbs RA, de Bakker PI, Deloukas P, Gabriel SB, Gwilliam R, Hunt S, Inouye M, Jia X, Palotie A, Parkin M, Whittaker P, Yu F, Chang K, Hawes A, Lewis LR, Ren Y, Wheeler D, Gibbs RA, Muzny DM, Barnes C, Darvishi K, Hurles M, Korn JM, Kristiansson K, Lee C, McCarrol SA, Nemesh J, Dermitzakis E, Keinan A, Montgomery SB, Pollack S, Price AL, Soranzo N, Bonnen PE, Gibbs RA, Gonzaga-Jauregui C, Keinan A, Price AL, Yu F, Anttila V, Brodeur W, Daly MJ, Leslie S, McVean G, Moutsianas L, Nguyen H, Schaffner SF, Zhang Q, Ghori MJ, McGinnis R, McLaren W, Pollack S, Price AL, Schaffner SF, Takeuchi F, Grossman SR, Shlyakhter I, Hostetter EB, Sabeti PC, Adebamowo CA, Foster MW, Gordon DR, Licinio J, Manca MC, Marshall PA, Matsuda I, Ngare D, Wang VO, Reddy D, Rotimi CN, Royal CD, Sharp RR, Zeng C, Brooks LD, McEwen JE | display-authors = 6 | title = Integrating common and rare genetic variation in diverse human populations | journal = Nature | volume = 467 | issue = 7311 | pages = 52–58 | date = September 2010 | pmid = 20811451 | doi = 10.1038/nature09298 | pmc = 3173859 | bibcode = 2010Natur.467...52T }}</ref> African populations harbor the highest number of private genetic variants. While many of the common variants found in populations outside of Africa are also found on the African continent, there are still large numbers that are private to these regions, especially ] and ].<ref name="Bergstrom2020" /> By 2010 estimates, humans have approximately 22,000 genes.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Pertea M, Salzberg SL | title = Between a chicken and a grape: estimating the number of human genes | journal = Genome Biology | volume = 11 | issue = 5 | page = 206 | year = 2010 | pmid = 20441615 | pmc = 2898077 | doi = 10.1186/gb-2010-11-5-206 | doi-access = free }}</ref> By comparing ], which is inherited only from the mother, geneticists have concluded that the last female common ancestor whose ] is found in all modern humans, the so-called ], must have lived around 90,000 to 200,000 years ago.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cann RL, Stoneking M, Wilson AC | title = Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution | journal = Nature | volume = 325 | issue = 6099 | pages = 31–36 | year = 1987 | pmid = 3025745 | doi = 10.1038/325031a0 | bibcode = 1987Natur.325...31C | s2cid = 4285418 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Soares P, Ermini L, Thomson N, Mormina M, Rito T, Röhl A, Salas A, Oppenheimer S, Macaulay V, Richards MB | display-authors = 6 | title = Correcting for purifying selection: an improved human mitochondrial molecular clock | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 84 | issue = 6 | pages = 740–759 | date = June 2009 | pmid = 19500773 | pmc = 2694979 | doi = 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.05.001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/245/new_molecular_clock_aids_dating_of_human_migration_history|title=University of Leeds | News > Technology > New 'molecular clock' aids dating of human migration history|date=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820230218/https://www.leeds.ac.uk/news/article/245/new_molecular_clock_aids_dating_of_human_migration_history|archive-date=20 August 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Poznik GD, Henn BM, Yee MC, Sliwerska E, Euskirchen GM, Lin AA, Snyder M, Quintana-Murci L, Kidd JM, Underhill PA, Bustamante CD | display-authors = 6 | title = Sequencing Y chromosomes resolves discrepancy in time to common ancestor of males versus females | journal = Science | volume = 341 | issue = 6145 | pages = 562–565 | date = August 2013 | pmid = 23908239 | pmc = 4032117 | doi = 10.1126/science.1237619 | bibcode = 2013Sci...341..562P }}</ref> | |||
By comparing the parts of the genome that are not under natural selection and which therefore accumulate mutations at a fairly steady rate, it is possible to reconstruct a genetic tree incorporating the entire human species since the last shared ancestor. Each time a certain mutation (]) appears in an individual and is passed on to his or her descendants a ] is formed including all of the descendants of the individual who will also carry that mutation. By comparing ] which is inherited only from the mother, geneticists have concluded that the last female common ancestor whose genetic marker is found in all modern humans, the so-called ], must have lived around 200,000 years ago. | |||
=== Life cycle === | |||
The forces of ] have continued to operate on human populations, with evidence that certain regions of the ] display ] in the past 15,000 years.<ref name="urlNYT">{{cite news |author=Wade, Nicholas |title=Still Evolving, Human Genes Tell New Story |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/07/science/07evolve.html |date=March 7, 2007 |accessdate=2012-02-13 |publisher=The New York Times}}</ref> | |||
{{See also|Childbirth|Life expectancy|}} | |||
===Life cycle=== | |||
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Most ] takes place by ] via ], but can also occur through ] procedures.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Shehan CL |url={{GBurl|id=-gSeCAAAQBAJ|p=406}}|title=The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Family Studies, 4 Volume Set|date=2016|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-65845-1|page=406|name-list-style=vanc}}</ref> The average ] period is 38 weeks, but a normal pregnancy can vary by up to 37 days.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jukic AM, Baird DD, ], McConnaughey DR, Wilcox AJ | title = Length of human pregnancy and contributors to its natural variation | journal = Human Reproduction | volume = 28 | issue = 10 | pages = 2848–2855 | date = October 2013 | pmid = 23922246 | pmc = 3777570 | doi = 10.1093/humrep/det297 }}</ref> Embryonic development in the human covers the first eight weeks of development; at the beginning of the ninth week the embryo is termed a ].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Klossner NJ | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=B47OVg25g-QC&q=fetal+stage+begins&pg=PA103 | title = Introductory Maternity Nursing | date = 2005 | page = 103 | publisher = Lippincott Williams & Wilkins | quote = The fetal stage is from the beginning of the 9th week after fertilization and continues until birth | isbn = 978-0-7817-6237-3 | access-date = 30 July 2022 | archive-date = 8 April 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220408103945/https://books.google.com/books?id=B47OVg25g-QC&q=fetal+stage+begins&pg=PA103 | url-status = live }}</ref> Humans are able to ] or perform a ] if the child needs to be born earlier for medical reasons.<ref>{{cite web|author=World Health Organization|date=November 2014|title=Preterm birth Fact sheet N°363|url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs363/en/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150307050438/https://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs363/en/|archive-date=7 March 2015|access-date=6 March 2015|work=who.int}}</ref> In developed countries, ]s are typically {{Convert|3|-|4|kg|lb|abbr=on|lk=off|0}} in weight and {{Convert|47|-|53|cm|in|abbr=on|lk=off|0}} in height at birth.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Kiserud T, Benachi A, Hecher K, Perez RG, Carvalho J, Piaggio G, Platt LD | title = The World Health Organization fetal growth charts: concept, findings, interpretation, and application | journal = American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | volume = 218 | issue = 2S | pages = S619–S629 | date = February 2018 | pmid = 29422204 | doi = 10.1016/j.ajog.2017.12.010 | s2cid = 46810955 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=18 March 2019|title=What is the average baby length? Growth chart by month|url=https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324728|access-date=18 April 2021|website=www.medicalnewstoday.com|language=en|archive-date=27 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127193402/https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324728|url-status=live}}</ref> However, ] is common in developing countries, and contributes to the high levels of ] in these regions.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Khor GL | title = Update on the prevalence of malnutrition among children in Asia | journal = Nepal Medical College Journal | volume = 5 | issue = 2 | pages = 113–122 | date = December 2003 | pmid = 15024783 }}</ref> | |||
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Compared with other species, human childbirth is dangerous, with a much higher risk of complications and death.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Rosenberg KR |date=1992|title=The evolution of modern human childbirth |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology|language=en|volume=35|issue=S15|pages=89–124|doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330350605|issn=1096-8644}}</ref> The size of the fetus's head is more closely matched to the ] than in other primates.<ref name="Pavlicev">{{cite journal | vauthors = Pavličev M, Romero R, Mitteroecker P | title = Evolution of the human pelvis and obstructed labor: new explanations of an old obstetrical dilemma | journal = American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | volume = 222 | issue = 1 | pages = 3–16 | date = January 2020 | pmid = 31251927 | doi = 10.1016/j.ajog.2019.06.043 | pmc = 9069416 | s2cid = 195761874 }}</ref> The reason for this is not completely understood,{{#tag:ref|Traditionally this has been explained by conflicting ]s involved in bipedalism and encephalization (called the ]), but recent research suggest it might be more complicated than that.<ref name="Pavlicev" /><ref>{{cite news|title=The real reasons why childbirth is so painful and dangerous| vauthors = Barras C |date=22 December 2016|publisher=BBC}}</ref>|group=n}} but it contributes to a painful labor that can last 24 hours or more.<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Kantrowitz B | date = 2 July 2007 | title = What Kills One Woman Every Minute of Every Day? | work = ] | url = https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19389326/site/newsweek/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070628160443/https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19389326/site/newsweek/ | archive-date = 28 June 2007 | quote = A woman dies in childbirth every minute, most often due to uncontrolled bleeding and infection, with the world's poorest women most vulnerable. The lifetime risk is 1 in 16 in ], compared to 1 in 2,800 in ]. }}</ref> The chances of a successful labor increased significantly during the 20th century in wealthier countries with the advent of new medical technologies. In contrast, pregnancy and ] remain hazardous ordeals in developing regions of the world, with ] approximately 100 times greater than in developed countries.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rush D | title = Nutrition and maternal mortality in the developing world | journal = The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | volume = 72 | issue = 1 Suppl | pages = 212S–240S | date = July 2000 | pmid = 10871588 | doi = 10.1093/ajcn/72.1.212S | doi-access = free }}</ref> | |||
As with other mammals, ] takes place as ] by ]. During this process, the ] ] of the male is inserted into the female's ] until the male ]s semen, which contains sperm. The sperm travels through the vagina and cervix into the uterus or Fallopian tubes for ] of the ovum. Upon fertilization and ], gestation then occurs within the female's ]. | |||
Both the mother and the father provide care for human offspring, in contrast to other primates, where parental care is mostly done by the mother.<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Laland KN, Brown G|url={{GBurl|id=2KcbFVBSxWYC}}|title=Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour|date=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-958696-7|page=7|language=en|access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> ], humans continue to grow for some years, typically reaching ] at 15 to 17 years of age.<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Kail RV, Cavanaugh JC|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E-n5E7oyCgoC&pg=PA296|title=Human Development: A Lifespan View|publisher=]|year=2010|isbn=978-0-495-60037-4|edition=5th|page=296|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=3 October 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231003072150/https://books.google.com/books?id=E-n5E7oyCgoC|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Schuiling KD, Likis FE|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QTDFDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA22|title=Women's Gynecologic Health|publisher=]|year=2016|isbn=978-1-284-12501-6|page=22|quote=The changes that occur during puberty usually happen in an ordered sequence, beginning with thelarche (breast development) at around age 10 or 11, followed by adrenarche (growth of pubic hair due to androgen stimulation), peak height velocity, and finally menarche (the onset of menses), which usually occurs around age 12 or 13.|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=10 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110011825/https://books.google.com/books?id=QTDFDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA22|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Phillips DC|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=84StBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA18|title=Encyclopedia of Educational Theory and Philosophy|publisher=]|year=2014|isbn=978-1-4833-6475-9|pages=18–19|quote=On average, the onset of puberty is about 18 months earlier for girls (usually starting around the age of 10 or 11 and lasting until they are 15 to 17) than for boys (who usually begin puberty at about the age of 11 to 12 and complete it by the age of 16 to 17, on average).|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=10 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230110011826/https://books.google.com/books?id=84StBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA18|url-status=live}}</ref> The human life span has been split into various stages ranging from three to twelve. Common stages include ], ], ], ]hood and ].<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Mintz S |date=1993|title=Life stages|journal=Encyclopedia of American Social History|volume=3|pages=7–33}}</ref> The lengths of these stages have varied across cultures and time periods but is typified by an unusually rapid growth spurt during adolescence.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Soliman A, De Sanctis V, Elalaily R, Bedair S | title = Advances in pubertal growth and factors influencing it: Can we increase pubertal growth? | journal = Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism | volume = 18 | issue = Suppl 1 | pages = S53-62 | date = November 2014 | pmid = 25538878 | pmc = 4266869 | doi = 10.4103/2230-8210.145075 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Human females undergo ] and become ] at around the age of 50.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Walker ML, Herndon JG | title = Menopause in nonhuman primates? | journal = Biology of Reproduction | volume = 79 | issue = 3 | pages = 398–406 | date = September 2008 | pmid = 18495681 | pmc = 2553520 | doi = 10.1095/biolreprod.108.068536 }}</ref> It has been proposed that menopause increases a woman's overall reproductive success by allowing her to invest more time and resources in her existing offspring, and in turn their children (the ]), rather than by continuing to bear children into old age.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Diamond J |author-link=Jared Diamond |title=Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality |publisher=Basic Books |location=New York|year=1997 |pages=167–170 |isbn=978-0-465-03127-6}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Peccei JS |title= Menopause: Adaptation or epiphenomenon? |journal=Evolutionary Anthropology |volume=10 |issue=2 |year=2001 |pages=43–57 |doi=10.1002/evan.1013|s2cid=1665503 }}</ref> | |||
The ] divides inside the female's uterus to become an ], which over a period of 38 weeks (9 months) of ] becomes a ]. After this span of time, the fully grown fetus is ] from the woman's body and breathes independently as an infant for the first time. At this point, most modern cultures recognize the baby as a person entitled to the full protection of the law, though some jurisdictions extend various levels of ] earlier to human fetuses while they remain in the uterus. | |||
The life span of an individual depends on two major factors, genetics and lifestyle choices.<ref>{{cite news | vauthors = Marziali C |date=7 December 2010 |title=Reaching Toward the Fountain of Youth |url=https://uscnews.usc.edu/health/reaching_toward_the_fountain_of_youth.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213203112/https://uscnews.usc.edu/health/reaching_toward_the_fountain_of_youth.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 December 2010 |work=USC Trojan Family Magazine |access-date=7 December 2010}}</ref> For various reasons, including biological/genetic causes, women live on average about four years longer than men.<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Kalben BB |title=Why Men Die Younger: Causes of Mortality Differences by Sex |publisher=Society of Actuaries |year=2002 |url=https://www.soa.org/news-and-publications/publications/other-publications/monographs/m-li01-1-toc.aspx |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130701185241/https://www.soa.org/news-and-publications/publications/other-publications/monographs/m-li01-1-toc.aspx |archive-date=1 July 2013 }}</ref> {{as of|2018|}}, the global average ] of a girl is estimated to be 74.9 years compared to 70.4 for a boy.<ref>{{cite web|date=2018|title=Life expectancy at birth, female (years)|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.FE.IN|access-date=13 October 2020|website=World Bank|archive-date=24 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124203646/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.FE.IN|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=2018|title=Life expectancy at birth, male (years)|url=https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN|access-date=13 October 2020|website=World Bank|archive-date=24 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210224133034/https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN|url-status=live}}</ref> There are significant geographical variations in human life expectancy, mostly correlated with economic development{{snd}}for example, life expectancy at birth in ] is 87.6 years for girls and 81.8 for boys, while in the ], it is 55.0 years for girls and 50.6 for boys.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Conceição P, etal | title = Human Development Report | date = 2019 | publisher = United Nations Development Programme | url = https://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2019.pdf | isbn = 978-92-1-126439-5 | access-date = 30 July 2022 | archive-date = 20 March 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210320094952/http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/hdr2019.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://hdr.undp.org/sites/all/themes/hdr_theme/country-notes/MLT.pdf|title=Human Development Report 2019|language=en|publisher=]|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=22 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220422102059/https://hdr.undp.org/sites/all/themes/hdr_theme/country-notes/MLT.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> The developed world is generally aging, with the median age around 40 years. In the ], the median age is between 15 and 20 years. While one in five Europeans is 60 years of age or older, only one in twenty Africans is 60 years of age or older.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ | title = The World Factbook | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090912045414/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/ | archive-date = 12 September 2009 | publisher = U.S. Central Intelligence Agency | access-date = 2 April 2005 }}</ref> In 2012, the United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living ] (humans of age 100 or older) worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/documents/publications/2012/UNFPA-Report-Chapter1.pdf|title=Chapter 1: Setting the Scene|year=2012|publisher=UNFPA|access-date=11 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130612052543/http://www.unfpa.org/webdav/site/global/shared/documents/publications/2012/UNFPA-Report-Chapter1.pdf|archive-date=12 June 2013}}</ref> | |||
Compared with other species, human childbirth is dangerous. Painful labors lasting 24 hours or more are not uncommon and sometimes lead to the death of the mother, the child or both.<ref>According to the July'' 2: 2007 ]'' magazine, a woman dies in childbirth every minute, most often due to uncontrolled bleeding and infection, with the world's poorest women most vulnerable. The lifetime risk is 1 in 16 in ], compared to 1 in 2,800 in developed countries.</ref> This is because of both the relatively large fetal head circumference and the mother's relatively narrow ].<ref name=LaVelle1995>{{cite journal |author=LaVelle, M. |title=Natural selection and developmental sexual variation in the human pelvis |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=98 |issue=1 |pages=59–72 |year=1995 |pmid=8579191 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.1330980106}}</ref><ref name=Correia2005>{{cite journal |author=Correia, H.; Balseiro, S.; De Areia, M. |title=Sexual dimorphism in the human pelvis: testing a new hypothesis |journal=Homo |volume=56 |issue=2 |pages=153–160 |year=2005 |pmid=16130838 |doi=10.1016/j.jchb.2005.05.003}}</ref> The chances of a successful labor increased significantly during the 20th century in wealthier countries with the advent of new medical technologies. In contrast, pregnancy and ] remain hazardous ordeals in developing regions of the world, with ] approximately 100 times greater than in developed countries.<ref name=Rush2000>{{cite journal |author=Rush, David |title=Nutrition and maternal mortality in the developing world |journal=American Journal of Clinical Nutrition |volume=72 |issue=1 Suppl |pages=212S–240S |year=2000 |pmid=10871588 |url=<!-- http://www.ajcn.org/content/72/1/212S.full -->http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/72/1/212s.abstract}}</ref> | |||
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In developed countries, infants are typically 3–4 kg (6–9 pounds) in weight and 50–60 cm (20–24 inches) in height at birth.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://childinfo.org/areas/birthweight/ |title=Low Birthweight |accessdate=2007-05-30 |archiveurl=http://web.archive.org/web/20070513150431/http://www.childinfo.org/areas/birthweight/ |archivedate=May 13, 2007}}</ref> However, low ] is common in developing countries, and contributes to the high levels of ] in these regions.<ref name=Khor2003>{{cite journal |author=Khor, G. |title=Update on the prevalence of malnutrition among children in Asia |journal=Nepal Medical College Journal |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=113–122 |year=2003 |pmid=15024783}}</ref> Helpless at birth, humans continue to grow for some years, typically reaching ] at 12 to 15 years of age. Females continue to develop physically until around the age of 18, whereas male development continues until around age 21. The ] can be split into a number of stages: infancy, ], ], ], ]hood and ]. The lengths of these stages, however, have varied across cultures and time periods. Compared to other primates, humans experience an unusually rapid growth spurt during adolescence, where the body grows 25% in size. Chimpanzees, for example, grow only 14%, with no pronounced spurt.<ref name=Leakey1993>{{cite book |author=Leakey, Richard; Lewin, Roger |title=Origins Reconsidered: In Search of What Makes Us Human |year=1993 |publisher=Anchor Books |location=New York, New York |isbn=978-0-385-46792-6}}</ref><!--find page # --> The presence of the growth spurt is probably necessary to keep children physically small until they are psychologically mature. Humans are one of the few species in which females undergo ]. It has been proposed that menopause increases a woman's overall reproductive success by allowing her to invest more time and resources in her existing offspring and/or their children (the ]), rather than by continuing to bear children into old age.<ref name=Diamond1997>{{cite book |author=Diamond, Jared |authorlink=Jared Diamond |title=Why is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality |publisher =Basic Books |location=New York, New York |year=1997 |pages=167–170 |isbn=0-465-03127-7}}</ref><ref name=Peccei2001>{{cite journal |author=Peccei, Jocelyn Scott |title=Menopause: adaptation or epiphenomenon? |journal=Evolutionary Anthropology |volume=10 |issue=2 |pages=47–57 |year=2001 |doi=10.1002/evan.1013 |url=http://www.biology.ed.ac.uk/public/conferences/evolbiol2006/papers/Peccei.pdf |format=PDF}}</ref> | |||
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For various reasons, including biological/genetic causes,<ref>Kalben, Barbara Blatt. "Why Men Die Younger: Causes of Mortality Differences by Sex". Society of Actuaries", 2002.http://www.soa.org/news-and-publications/publications/other-publications/monographs/m-li01-1-toc.aspx</ref> women live on average about four years longer than men — as of 2013 the global average ] of a girl is estimated at 70.2 years compared to 66.1 for a boy.<ref name=CIA-world>{{cite web|title=CIA World Factbook - World entry|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/xx.html|work=Central Intelligence Agency|accessdate=5 July 2013}}</ref> There are significant geographical variations in human life expectancy, mostly correlated with economic development — for example life expectancy at birth in ] is 84.8 years for girls and 78.9 for boys, while in ], primarily because of ], it is 31.3 years for both sexes.<ref> ], pp. 363–366, November 9, 2006</ref> The developed world is generally aging, with the median age around 40 years. In the ] the median age is between 15 and 20 years. While one in five Europeans is 60 years of age or older, only one in twenty Africans is 60 years of age or older.<ref>, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved April 2, 2005.</ref> The number of ]s (humans of age 100 years or older) in the world was estimated by the ] at 210,000 in 2002.<ref>, United Nations press release, February 28, 2002. Retrieved April 2, 2005.{{Dead link|date=July 2013}}</ref> At least one person, ], is known to have reached the age of 122 years;<ref name=Maier2010>{{cite book |author=Maier, Heiner |title=Supercentenarians |year=2010 |publisher=Springer |location=Heidelberg, Germany |isbn=978-3-642-11519-6 |page=288 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=0Fjkhcn3oeIC&pg=PA288}}</ref> higher ages have been claimed but they are not well substantiated. | |||
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===Diet=== | === Diet === | ||
{{Main|Human nutrition}} | {{Main|Human nutrition}} | ||
], ], preparing a meal]]Humans are ],<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Barrientos |first1=Gustavo |last2=Catella |first2=Luciana |last3=Morales |first3=Natalia S. |date=20 May 2020 |title=A journey into the landscape of past feeding habits: Mapping geographic variations in the isotope (δ15N) -inferred trophic position of prehistoric human populations |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S1040618220300240 |journal=] |language=en |volume=548 |pages=13–26 |doi=10.1016/j.quaint.2020.01.023 |bibcode=2020QuInt.548...13B |access-date=20 July 2024 |via=Elsevier Science Direct}}</ref> capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Haenel H | title = Phylogenesis and nutrition | journal = Die Nahrung | volume = 33 | issue = 9 | pages = 867–887 | year = 1989 | pmid = 2697806 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | veditors = Ungar PS |year=2007 | vauthors = Cordain L |title=Evolution of the human diet: the known, the unknown and the unknowable |chapter=Implications of Plio-pleistocene diets for modern humans |quote=Since the evolutionary split between hominins and ] approximately 7 million years ago, the available evidence shows that all species of hominins ate an omnivorous diet composed of minimally processed, wild-plant, and animal foods. |pages=264–265}}</ref> Human groups have adopted a range of diets from purely ] to primarily ]. In some cases, dietary restrictions in humans can lead to ]; however, stable human groups have adapted to many dietary patterns through both genetic specialization and cultural conventions to use nutritionally balanced food sources.<ref>{{cite journal | title = Position of the American Dietetic Association and Dietitians of Canada: Vegetarian diets | journal = Journal of the American Dietetic Association | volume = 103 | issue = 6 | pages = 748–765 | date = June 2003 | pmid = 12778049 | doi = 10.1053/jada.2003.50142 | author1 = American Dietetic Association }}</ref> The human diet is prominently reflected in human culture and has led to the development of ].<ref name="Crittenden-2017">{{cite journal| vauthors = Crittenden AN, Schnorr SL |date=2017|title=Current views on hunter-gatherer nutrition and the evolution of the human diet |journal=American Journal of Physical Anthropology |volume=162 |issue=S63 |pages=84–109 |doi=10.1002/ajpa.23148 |pmid=28105723|doi-access=free }}</ref> | |||
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Until the development of agriculture, ''Homo sapiens'' employed a hunter-gatherer method as their sole means of food collection.<ref name="Crittenden-2017" /> This involved combining stationary food sources (such as fruits, grains, tubers, and mushrooms, insect larvae and aquatic mollusks) with ], which must be hunted and captured in order to be consumed.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cordain L, Eaton SB, Sebastian A, Mann N, Lindeberg S, Watkins BA, O'Keefe JH, Brand-Miller J | display-authors = 6 | title = Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century | journal = The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | volume = 81 | issue = 2 | pages = 341–354 | date = February 2005 | pmid = 15699220 | doi = 10.1093/ajcn.81.2.341 | name-list-style = vanc | doi-access = free }}</ref> It has been proposed that humans have used fire to prepare and ] food since the time of '']''.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ulijaszek SJ | title = Human eating behaviour in an evolutionary ecological context | journal = The Proceedings of the Nutrition Society | volume = 61 | issue = 4 | pages = 517–526 | date = November 2002 | pmid = 12691181 | doi = 10.1079/PNS2002180 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Human ] of wild plants began about 11,700 years ago, leading to the ],<ref>{{cite journal|title=Unearthing the origins of agriculture|author=John Carey|doi=10.1073/pnas.2304407120|journal=]|volume=120|issue=15|date=2023|pages=e2304407120 |doi-access=free|pmid=37018195 |pmc=10104519|bibcode=2023PNAS..12004407C }}</ref> a gradual process called the ].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Can models of evolutionary transition clarify the debates over the Neolithic Revolution?|author1=Ayelet Shavit|author2=Gonen Sharon|journal=]|date=2023|volume=378|issue=1872|doi=10.1098/rstb.2021.0413 |pmid=36688395 |pmc=9869441 }}</ref> These dietary changes may also have altered human biology; the spread of ] provided a new and rich source of food, leading to the evolution of the ability to digest ] in some adults.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Krebs JR | title = The gourmet ape: evolution and human food preferences | journal = The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | volume = 90 | issue = 3 | pages = 707S–711S | date = September 2009 | pmid = 19656837 | doi = 10.3945/ajcn.2009.27462B | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Holden C, Mace R | title = Phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of lactose digestion in adults | journal = Human Biology | volume = 69 | issue = 5 | pages = 605–628 | date = October 1997 | pmid = 9299882 }}</ref> The types of food consumed, and how they are prepared, have varied widely by time, location, and culture.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Gibbons A|title=The Evolution of Diet|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/|access-date=18 April 2021|website=National Geographic|archive-date=18 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140818204010/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/foodfeatures/evolution-of-diet/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Ritchie H, Roser M|date=20 August 2017|title=Diet Compositions|url=https://ourworldindata.org/diet-compositions|journal=Our World in Data|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=25 August 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825210934/https://ourworldindata.org/diet-compositions|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Humans are ], capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Haenel H |title=Phylogenesis and nutrition |journal=Nahrung |volume=33 |issue=9 |pages=867–87 |year=1989 |pmid=2697806}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|editor=Peter S. Ungar|year=2007|author=Cordain, Loren|title=Evolution of the human diet: the known, the unknown and the unknowable|chapter=Implications of Plio-pleistocene diets for modern humans|quote="Since the evolutionary split between hominins and ] approximately 7 million years ago, the available evidence shows that all species of hominins ate an omnivorous diet composed of minimally processed, wild-plant, and animal foods.|pages=264–5}}</ref> Varying with available food sources in regions of habitation, and also varying with cultural and religious norms, human groups have adopted a range of diets, from purely ] to primarily ]. In some cases, dietary restrictions in humans can lead to ]; however, stable human groups have adapted to many dietary patterns through both genetic specialization and cultural conventions to use nutritionally balanced food sources.<ref>{{cite journal| journal=Journal of the American Dietetic Association| year=2003| volume=103| issue=6| pages=748–765| title=Vegetarian Diets| doi=10.1053/jada.2003.50142| pmid=12778049| last1=American Dietetic| first1=Association| last2=Dietitians Of| first2=Canada}}<!-- --></ref> The human diet is prominently reflected in human culture, and has led to the development of ]. | |||
In general, humans can survive for up to eight weeks without food, depending on stored body fat.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Lieberson AD|date=2004|title=How Long Can a Person Survive without Food?|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-a-person-survive-without-food/|access-date=18 April 2021|website=Scientific American|language=en|archive-date=14 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214012729/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-can-a-person-survive-without-food/|url-status=live}}</ref> Survival without water is usually limited to three or four days, with a maximum of one week.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Spector D|date=9 March 2018|title=Here's how many days a person can survive without water|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/how-many-days-can-you-survive-without-water-2014-5|access-date=18 April 2021|website=Business Insider Australia|language=en|archive-date=26 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140626030756/https://www.businessinsider.com.au/how-many-days-can-you-survive-without-water-2014-5|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2020 it is estimated 9 million humans die every year from causes directly or indirectly related to ].<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Holmes J|title=Losing 25,000 to Hunger Every Day|url=https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/losing-25000-hunger-every-day|access-date=18 April 2021|website=United Nations|language=en|archive-date=27 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200527235650/https://www.un.org/en/chronicle/article/losing-25000-hunger-every-day|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Mai HJ|date=2020|title=U.N. Warns Number Of People Starving To Death Could Double Amid Pandemic|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/05/850470436/u-n-warns-number-of-people-starving-to-death-could-double-amid-pandemic|access-date=18 April 2021|website=NPR |language=en|archive-date=28 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628090826/https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/05/850470436/u-n-warns-number-of-people-starving-to-death-could-double-amid-pandemic|url-status=live}}</ref> Childhood malnutrition is also common and contributes to the ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Murray CJ, Lopez AD | title = Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study | journal = Lancet | volume = 349 | issue = 9063 | pages = 1436–1442 | date = May 1997 | pmid = 9164317 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)07495-8 | s2cid = 2569153 }}</ref> However, global food distribution is not even, and ] among some human populations has increased rapidly, leading to health complications and increased mortality in some ] and a few ]. Worldwide, over one billion people are obese,<ref name=Haslam>{{cite journal | vauthors = Haslam DW, James WP | title = Obesity | journal = Lancet | volume = 366 | issue = 9492 | pages = 1197–1209 | date = October 2005 | pmid = 16198769 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67483-1 | s2cid = 208791491 }}</ref> while in the United States 35% of people are obese, leading to this being described as an "]."<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Catenacci VA, Hill JO, Wyatt HR | title = The obesity epidemic | journal = Clinics in Chest Medicine | volume = 30 | issue = 3 | pages = 415–444, vii | date = September 2009 | pmid = 19700042 | doi = 10.1016/j.ccm.2009.05.001 }}</ref> Obesity is caused by consuming more ]s than are expended, so excessive weight gain is usually caused by an energy-dense diet.<ref name=Haslam /> | |||
Until the development of agriculture approximately 10,000 years ago, ''Homo sapiens'' employed a hunter-gatherer method as their sole means of food collection. This involved combining stationary food sources (such as fruits, grains, tubers, and mushrooms, insect larvae and aquatic mollusks) with ], which must be hunted and killed in order to be consumed.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Cordain L |title=Origins and evolution of the Western diet: health implications for the 21st century |journal=Am. J. Clin. Nutr. |volume=81 |issue=2 |pages=341–54 |year=2005 |month=February |pmid=15699220 |author-separator=, |author2=Eaton SB |author3=Sebastian A |display-authors=3 |last4=Mann |first4=N |last5=Lindeberg |first5=S |last6=Watkins |first6=BA |last7=O'Keefe |first7=JH |last8=Brand-Miller |first8=J}}</ref> It has been proposed that humans have used fire to prepare and ] food since the time of '']''.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Ulijaszek SJ |title=Human eating behaviour in an evolutionary ecological context |journal=Proc Nutr Soc |volume=61 |issue=4 |pages=517–26 |year=2002 |month=November |pmid=12691181 |doi=10.1079/PNS2002180}}</ref> Around ten thousand years ago, ],<ref> | |||
– URLs retrieved February 19, 2007</ref> which substantially altered their diet. This change in diet may also have altered human biology; with the spread of ] providing a new and rich source of food, leading to the evolution of the ability to digest ] in some adults.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Krebs JR |title=The gourmet ape: evolution and human food preferences |journal=Am. J. Clin. Nutr. |volume=90 |issue=3 |pages=707S–711S |year=2009 |month=September |pmid=19656837 |doi=10.3945/ajcn.2009.27462B}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Holden C, Mace R |title=Phylogenetic analysis of the evolution of lactose digestion in adults |journal=Hum. Biol. |volume=69 |issue=5 |pages=605–28 |year=1997 |month=October |pmid=9299882 }}</ref> Agriculture led to increased populations, the development of cities, and because of increased population density, the wider spread of ]s. The types of food consumed, and the way in which they are prepared, has varied widely by time, location, and culture. | |||
=== Biological variation === | |||
In general, humans can survive for two to eight weeks without food, depending on stored body fat. Survival without water is usually limited to three or four days. About 36 million humans die every year from causes directly or indirectly related to hunger.<ref>] Information Service. . ], March 29, 2004, p. 6. "Around 36 million people died from hunger directly or indirectly every year.".</ref> Childhood malnutrition is also common and contributes to the ].<ref>{{cite journal | author = Murray C, Lopez A | title = Global mortality, disability, and the contribution of risk factors: Global Burden of Disease Study | journal = Lancet | volume = 349 | issue = 9063 | pages = 1436–42 | year = 1997 | pmid = 9164317 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(96)07495-8}}</ref> However global food distribution is not even, and ] among some human populations has increased rapidly, leading to health complications and increased mortality in some ], and a few ]. Worldwide over one billion people are obese,<ref name=Haslam>{{cite journal |author=Haslam DW, James WP |title=Obesity |journal=Lancet |volume=366 |issue=9492 |pages=1197–209 |year=2005 |month=October |pmid=16198769 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67483-1 }}</ref> while in the United States 35% of people are obese, leading to this being described as an "]".<ref name=Catenacci>{{cite journal |author=Catenacci VA, Hill JO, Wyatt HR |title=The obesity epidemic |journal=Clin. Chest Med. |volume=30 |issue=3 |pages=415–44, vii |year=2009 |month=September |pmid=19700042 |doi=10.1016/j.ccm.2009.05.001 }}</ref> Obesity is caused by consuming more ]s than are expended, so excessive weight gain is usually caused by a combination of an energy-dense high fat diet and insufficient ].<ref name=Haslam/> | |||
{{Main|Human genetic variation}}], a ], a ], and an ], drawing by an unknown artist after a mural of the tomb of ]]]There is biological variation in the human species{{snd}}with traits such as ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ], ] and ], and ] varying across the globe. The typical height of an adult human is between {{Convert|1.4|and|1.9|m|ftin|abbr=on}}, although this varies significantly depending on sex, ], and family bloodlines.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = de Beer H | title = Observations on the history of Dutch physical stature from the late-Middle Ages to the present | journal = Economics and Human Biology | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 45–55 | date = March 2004 | pmid = 15463992 | doi = 10.1016/j.ehb.2003.11.001 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = O'Neil D |title=Adapting to Climate Extremes |url=https://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_2.htm |work=Human Biological Adaptability |publisher=Palomar College |access-date=6 January 2013 |url-status=live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130106211840/https://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_2.htm |archive-date=6 January 2013 }}</ref> Body size is partly determined by genes and is also significantly influenced by environmental factors such as ], exercise, and ]s.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rask-Andersen M, Karlsson T, Ek WE, Johansson Å | title = Gene-environment interaction study for BMI reveals interactions between genetic factors and physical activity, alcohol consumption and socioeconomic status | journal = PLOS Genetics | volume = 13 | issue = 9 | pages = e1006977 | date = September 2017 | pmid = 28873402 | pmc = 5600404 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pgen.1006977 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | |||
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There is evidence that populations have adapted genetically to various external factors. The genes that allow adult humans to ] are present in high frequencies in populations that have long histories of cattle domestication and are more dependent on ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Beja-Pereira A, Luikart G, England PR, Bradley DG, Jann OC, Bertorelle G, Chamberlain AT, Nunes TP, Metodiev S, Ferrand N, Erhardt G | display-authors = 6 | title = Gene-culture coevolution between cattle milk protein genes and human lactase genes | journal = Nature Genetics | volume = 35 | issue = 4 | pages = 311–313 | date = December 2003 | pmid = 14634648 | doi = 10.1038/ng1263 | s2cid = 20415396 }}</ref> ], which may provide increased resistance to ], is frequent in populations where ] is endemic.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hedrick PW | title = Population genetics of malaria resistance in humans | journal = Heredity | volume = 107 | issue = 4 | pages = 283–304 | date = October 2011 | pmid = 21427751 | pmc = 3182497 | doi = 10.1038/hdy.2011.16 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Weatherall DJ | title = Genetic variation and susceptibility to infection: the red cell and malaria | journal = British Journal of Haematology | volume = 141 | issue = 3 | pages = 276–286 | date = May 2008 | pmid = 18410566 | doi = 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07085.x | s2cid = 28191911 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Populations that have for a very long time inhabited specific climates tend to have developed specific ]s that are beneficial for those environments{{snd}}], tall and lanky in hot regions, and with high lung capacities or other ].<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Shelomi M, Zeuss D |date=5 April 2017|title=Bergmann's and Allen's Rules in Native European and Mediterranean Phasmatodea |journal=Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution|volume=5|doi=10.3389/fevo.2017.00025|s2cid=34882477|issn=2296-701X|doi-access=free|hdl=11858/00-001M-0000-002C-DD87-4|hdl-access=free}}</ref> Some populations have evolved highly unique adaptations to very specific environmental conditions, such as those advantageous to ocean-dwelling lifestyles and ] in the ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ilardo MA, Moltke I, Korneliussen TS, Cheng J, Stern AJ, Racimo F, de Barros Damgaard P, Sikora M, Seguin-Orlando A, Rasmussen S, van den Munckhof IC, Ter Horst R, Joosten LA, Netea MG, Salingkat S, Nielsen R, Willerslev E | display-authors = 6 | title = Physiological and Genetic Adaptations to Diving in Sea Nomads | journal = Cell | volume = 173 | issue = 3 | pages = 569–580.e15 | date = April 2018 | pmid = 29677510 | doi = 10.1016/j.cell.2018.03.054 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | |||
Human hair ranges in color from ] to ] to ] to ], which is the most frequent.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Rogers AR, Iltis D, Wooding S|year=2004|title=Genetic variation at the MC1R locus and the time since loss of human body hair|journal=Current Anthropology|volume=45|issue=1|pages=105–08|doi=10.1086/381006|s2cid=224795768}}</ref> Hair color depends on the amount of ], with concentrations fading with increased age, leading to ] or even white hair. Skin color can range from ] to ], or even nearly white or colorless in cases of ].<ref name="roberts1">{{cite book| vauthors = Roberts D |title=Fatal Invention|publisher=The New Press|year=2011|location=London & New York}}</ref> It tends to vary ] and generally correlates with the level of ] in a particular geographic area, with darker skin mostly around the equator.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Nina J|year=2004|title=The evolution of human skin and skin color|journal=Annual Review of Anthropology|volume=33|pages=585–623|doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143955}}</ref> Skin darkening may have evolved as protection against ultraviolet solar radiation.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jablonski NG, Chaplin G | title = Colloquium paper: human skin pigmentation as an adaptation to UV radiation | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 107 | issue = Supplement_2 | pages = 8962–8968 | date = May 2010 | pmid = 20445093 | pmc = 3024016 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0914628107 | bibcode = 2010PNAS..107.8962J | doi-access = free }}</ref> Light skin pigmentation protects against depletion of ], which requires ] to make.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jablonski NG, Chaplin G | title = The evolution of human skin coloration | journal = Journal of Human Evolution | volume = 39 | issue = 1 | pages = 57–106 | date = July 2000 | pmid = 10896812 | doi = 10.1006/jhev.2000.0403 | bibcode = 2000JHumE..39...57J | url = https://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/faculty/leontis/chem447/PDF_files/Jablonski_skin_color_2000.pdf | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120114203210/https://www.bgsu.edu/departments/chem/faculty/leontis/chem447/PDF_files/Jablonski_skin_color_2000.pdf | archive-date = 14 January 2012 }}</ref> Human skin also has a capacity to darken (tan) in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Harding RM, Healy E, Ray AJ, Ellis NS, Flanagan N, Todd C, Dixon C, Sajantila A, Jackson IJ, Birch-Machin MA, Rees JL | display-authors = 6 | title = Evidence for variable selective pressures at MC1R | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 66 | issue = 4 | pages = 1351–1361 | date = April 2000 | pmid = 10733465 | pmc = 1288200 | doi = 10.1086/302863 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Robin A | date = 1991 | title = Biological Perspectives on Human Pigmentation | location = Cambridge | publisher = Cambridge University Press }}</ref> | |||
===Biological variation=== | |||
{{Main|Human genetic variation}} | |||
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There is relatively little variation between human geographical populations, and most of the variation that occurs is at the individual level.<ref name="roberts1" /><ref>{{cite web|title=The Science Behind the Human Genome Project|url=https://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/info.shtml|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130102065343/https://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/info.shtml|archive-date=2 January 2013|access-date=6 January 2013|work=Human Genome Project|publisher=US Department of Energy|quote=Almost all (99.9%) nucleotide bases are exactly the same in all people.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| vauthors = O'Neil D | title=Ethnicity and Race: Overview|url=https://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm#return_from_ethnic_identity_question|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106212622/https://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm#return_from_ethnic_identity_question|archive-date=6 January 2013|access-date=6 January 2013|publisher=Palomar College}}</ref> Much of human variation is continuous, often with no clear points of demarcation.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Keita SO, Kittles RA, Royal CD, Bonney GE, Furbert-Harris P, Dunston GM, Rotimi CN | title = Conceptualizing human variation | journal = Nature Genetics | volume = 36 | issue = 11 Suppl | pages = S17-20 | date = November 2004 | pmid = 15507998 | doi = 10.1038/ng1455 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Models of Classification|url=https://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_2.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130106212400/https://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_2.htm|archive-date=6 January 2013|access-date=6 January 2013|work=Modern Human Variation|publisher=Palomar College|vauthors=O'Neil D}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Jablonski N|year=2004|title=The evolution of human skin and skin color|journal=Annual Review of Anthropology|volume=33|pages=585–623|doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143955}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Palmié S|date=May 2007|title=Genomics, divination, 'racecraft'|journal=American Ethnologist|volume=34|issue=2|pages=205–222|doi=10.1525/ae.2007.34.2.205}}</ref> Genetic data shows that no matter how population groups are defined, two people from the same population group are almost as different from each other as two people from any two different population groups.<ref>{{cite web|title=Genetic – Understanding Human Genetic Variation|url=https://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/genetic/guide/genetic_variation1.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825143543/https://science.education.nih.gov/supplements/nih1/genetic/guide/genetic_variation1.htm|archive-date=25 August 2013|access-date=13 December 2013|work=Human Genetic Variation|publisher=National Institute of Health (NIH)|quote=In fact, research results consistently demonstrate that about 85 percent of all human genetic variation exists within human populations, whereas about only 15 percent of variation exists between populations.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| vauthors = Goodman A |title=Interview with Alan Goodman|url=https://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-07.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121029063805/https://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-07.htm|archive-date=29 October 2012|access-date=6 January 2013|work=Race Power of and Illusion|publisher=PBS}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Marks J |year=2010|chapter=Ten facts about human variation |title=Human Evolutionary Biology| veditors = Muehlenbein M |location=New York|publisher=Cambridge University Press|url=https://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/pubs/tenfacts.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415012646/https://personal.uncc.edu/jmarks/pubs/tenfacts.pdf|archive-date=15 April 2012|access-date=5 September 2013}}</ref> Dark-skinned populations that are found in Africa, Australia, and South Asia are not closely related to each other.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Nina J|year=2004|title=The evolution of human skin and skin color|journal=Annual Review of Anthropology|volume=33|pages=585–623|doi=10.1146/annurev.anthro.33.070203.143955|quote=genetic evidence that strong levels of natural selection acted about 1.2 mya to produce darkly pigmented skin in early members of the genus Homo}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Overview|url=https://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_1.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121105101522/https://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_1.htm|archive-date=5 November 2012|access-date=6 January 2013|work=Modern Human Variation|publisher=Palomar College|vauthors=O'Neil D}}</ref> | |||
No two humans – not even ] – are genetically identical. ]s and ] influence human biological variation from visible characteristics to physiology to disease susceptibly to mental abilities. The exact influence of ] on certain traits is not well understood.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Edwards |first=JH |coauthors=T Dent and J Kahn |title=Monozygotic twins of different sex |journal=Journal of Medical Genetics |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=117–123 |year=1966 |month=June |pmid=6007033 |pmc=1012913 |doi= 10.1136/jmg.3.2.117|url= |accessdate=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Machin |first=GA |title=Some causes of genotypic and phenotypic discordance in monozygotic twin pairs |journal=American Journal of Medical Genetics |volume=61 |issue=3 |pages=216–228 |year=1996 |month=January |pmid=8741866 |doi=10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19960122)61:3<216::AID-AJMG5>3.0.CO;2-S |url= |accessdate=}}</ref> | |||
Genetic research has demonstrated that human populations native to the ] are the most genetically diverse<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jorde LB, Watkins WS, Bamshad MJ, Dixon ME, Ricker CE, Seielstad MT, Batzer MA | title = The distribution of human genetic diversity: a comparison of mitochondrial, autosomal, and Y-chromosome data | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 66 | issue = 3 | pages = 979–988 | date = March 2000 | pmid = 10712212 | pmc = 1288178 | doi = 10.1086/302825 }}</ref> and genetic diversity decreases with migratory distance from Africa, possibly the result of ] during human migration.<ref>{{cite web |date=19 July 2007 |title=New Research Proves Single Origin Of Humans In Africa |url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070718140829.htm |website=] |access-date=5 September 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104103559/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/07/070718140829.htm |archive-date=4 November 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Manica A, Amos W, Balloux F, Hanihara T | title = The effect of ancient population bottlenecks on human phenotypic variation | journal = Nature | volume = 448 | issue = 7151 | pages = 346–348 | date = July 2007 | pmid = 17637668 | pmc = 1978547 | doi = 10.1038/nature05951 | author-link3 = Francois Balloux | bibcode = 2007Natur.448..346M }}</ref> These non-African populations acquired new genetic inputs from local ] and have much greater variation from ] and ] than is found in Africa,<ref name="Bergstrom2020">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bergström A, McCarthy SA, Hui R, Almarri MA, Ayub Q, Danecek P, Chen Y, Felkel S, Hallast P, Kamm J, Blanché H, Deleuze JF, Cann H, Mallick S, Reich D, Sandhu MS, Skoglund P, Scally A, Xue Y, Durbin R, Tyler-Smith C | display-authors = 6 | title = Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes | journal = Science | volume = 367 | issue = 6484 | pages = eaay5012 | date = March 2020 | pmid = 32193295 | pmc = 7115999 | doi = 10.1126/science.aay5012 |quote=Populations in central and southern Africa, the Americas, and Oceania each harbor tens to hundreds of thousands of ''private'', common genetic variants. Most of these variants arose as new mutations rather than through archaic introgression, except in Oceanian populations, where many private variants derive from Denisovan admixture.}}</ref> though Neanderthal admixture into African populations may be underestimated.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Chen L, Wolf AB, Fu W, Li L, Akey JM | title = Identifying and Interpreting Apparent Neanderthal Ancestry in African Individuals | journal = Cell | volume = 180 | issue = 4 | pages = 677–687.e16 | date = February 2020 | pmid = 32004458 | pmc = | doi = 10.1016/j.cell.2020.01.012 | s2cid = 210955842 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Furthermore, recent studies have found that populations in ], and particularly ], have ancestral genetic variation which predates modern humans and has been lost in most non-African populations. Some of this ancestry is thought to originate from admixture with an ] that diverged before the split of Neanderthals and modern humans.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Bergström A, McCarthy SA, Hui R, Almarri MA, Ayub Q, Danecek P, Chen Y, Felkel S, Hallast P, Kamm J, Blanché H, Deleuze JF, Cann H, Mallick S, Reich D, Sandhu MS, Skoglund P, Scally A, Xue Y, Durbin R, Tyler-Smith C | display-authors = 6 | title = Insights into human genetic variation and population history from 929 diverse genomes | journal = Science | volume = 367 | issue = 6484 | pages = eaay5012 | date = March 2020 | pmid = 32193295 | pmc = 7115999 | doi = 10.1126/science.aay5012 |quote=An analysis of archaic sequences in modern populations identifies ancestral genetic variation in African populations that likely predates modern humans and has been lost in most non-African populations.}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Durvasula A, Sankararaman S | title = Recovering signals of ghost archaic introgression in African populations | journal = Science Advances | volume = 6 | issue = 7 | pages = eaax5097 | date = February 2020 | pmid = 32095519 | pmc = 7015685 | doi = 10.1126/sciadv.aax5097 | bibcode = 2020SciA....6.5097D |quote=Our analyses of site frequency spectra indicate that these populations derive 2 to 19% of their genetic ancestry from an archaic population that diverged before the split of Neanderthals and modern humans.}}</ref> | |||
Most current ] and ] evidence supports a recent single ] in ]<ref name=Liu>{{cite journal |author=Liu, Hua; Prugnolle, Franck; Manina, Andrea; Balloux, François |title=A geographically explicit genetic model of worldwide human-settlement history |journal=The American Journal of Human Genetics |volume=79 |issue=2 |pages=230–237 |year=2006 |pmid=16826514 |pmc=1559480 |doi=10.1086/505436}}</ref> with first migrations placed at 60,000 years ago. Compared to the other ], ] – even among ]n populations – are ].<ref name=REGWG2005>{{cite journal |author=Race, Ethnicity, and Genetics Working Group |title=The use of racial, ethnic, and ancestral categories in human genetics research |journal=American Journal of Human Genetics |volume=77 |issue=4 |pages=519–532 |year=2005 |pmid=16175499 |pmc=1275602 |doi=10.1086/491747}}</ref> There is about 2-3 times more genetic diversity within the wild chimpanzee populations on a single hillside in ], than in the entire ].<ref name=pbs1>{{cite web|title=Human Diversity - Go Deeper|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-11.htm|work=Power of an Illusion|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=mailonline1>{{cite web|last=Waugh|first=Rob|title=Mystery as scientists find more DNA differences between chimps from two sides of the same river than humans from different continents|url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2108813/Mystery-scientists-DNA-differences-chimps-sides-river-humans-different-continents.html|publisher=Mail Online|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=roberts1>{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Dorothy|title=Fatal Invention|year=2011|publisher=The New Press|location=London, New York}}</ref> | |||
Humans are a ] species, meaning they are divided into male and female ]es.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z4pXRaZAkdkC&q=humans+are+dioecious+genetics&pg=PA75|title=Genetics: A Conceptual Approach|vauthors=Pierce BA|date=2012|publisher=Macmillan|isbn=978-1-4292-3252-4|pages=75|language=en|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=22 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022071237/https://books.google.com/books?id=z4pXRaZAkdkC&q=humans+are+dioecious+genetics&pg=PA75|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Muehlenbein MP|url={{GBurl|id=1VXX1jkhPH8C|q=humans are dioecious biology|pg=PT57}}}|title=Human Evolutionary Biology|date=29 July 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-87948-4|veditors=Jones J|page=74|language=en|access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Fusco G, Minelli A|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AKGsDwAAQBAJ&q=homo+sapiens+gonochoric&pg=PA304|title=The Biology of Reproduction|date=10 October 2019|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-49985-9|page=304|language=en|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=22 October 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221022071224/https://books.google.com/books?id=AKGsDwAAQBAJ&q=homo+sapiens+gonochoric&pg=PA304|url-status=live}}</ref> The greatest degree of genetic ]. While the ] genetic variation of individuals of the same sex across global populations is no greater than 0.1%–0.5%, the genetic difference between ] and ] is between 1% and 2%. Males on average are 15% heavier and {{Convert|15|cm|in|abbr=on|lk=off|0}} taller than females.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gustafsson A, Lindenfors P | title = Human size evolution: no evolutionary allometric relationship between male and female stature | journal = Journal of Human Evolution | volume = 47 | issue = 4 | pages = 253–266 | date = October 2004 | pmid = 15454336 | doi = 10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.07.004 | bibcode = 2004JHumE..47..253G }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Ogden CL, Fryar CD, Carroll MD, Flegal KM | title = Mean body weight, height, and body mass index, United States 1960–2002 | journal = Advance Data | volume = | issue = 347 | pages = 1–17 | date = October 2004 | pmid = 15544194 | doi = | url = https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347.pdf | archive-url = https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/20110223153209/https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347.pdf |archive-date=23 February 2011 }}</ref> On average, men have about 40–50% more upper-body strength and 20–30% more lower-body strength than women at the same weight, due to higher amounts of muscle and larger muscle fibers.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Miller AE, MacDougall JD, Tarnopolsky MA, Sale DG | title = Gender differences in strength and muscle fiber characteristics | journal = European Journal of Applied Physiology and Occupational Physiology | volume = 66 | issue = 3 | pages = 254–262 | year = 1993 | pmid = 8477683 | doi = 10.1007/BF00235103 | hdl-access = free | s2cid = 206772211 | hdl = 11375/22586 }}</ref> Women generally have a higher ] percentage than men.<ref>{{Cite book | vauthors = Bredella MA |chapter=Sex Differences in Body Composition|date=2017 |title=Sex and Gender Factors Affecting Metabolic Homeostasis, Diabetes and Obesity |series=Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology|volume=1043 |pages=9–27| veditors = Mauvais-Jarvis F |place=Cham |publisher=Springer International Publishing |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-70178-3_2 |pmid=29224088|isbn=978-3-319-70177-6 }}</ref> Women have ] than men of the same population; this has been explained by a higher need for vitamin D in females during pregnancy and ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rahrovan S, Fanian F, Mehryan P, Humbert P, Firooz A | title = Male versus female skin: What dermatologists and cosmeticians should know | journal = International Journal of Women's Dermatology | volume = 4 | issue = 3 | pages = 122–130 | date = September 2018 | pmid = 30175213 | pmc = 6116811 | doi = 10.1016/j.ijwd.2018.03.002 }}</ref> As there are chromosomal differences between females and males, some X and Y chromosome-related conditions and ] only affect either men or women.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Easter C|title=Sex Linked|url=https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Sex-Linked|access-date=18 April 2021|website=National Human Genome Research Institute|language=en|archive-date=14 April 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414183337/https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Sex-Linked|url-status=live}}</ref> After allowing for body weight and volume, the male voice is usually an ] deeper than the female voice.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Puts DA, Gaulin SJ, Verdolini K | title = Dominance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in human voice pitch. | journal = Evolution and Human Behavior | date = July 2006 | volume = 27 | issue = 4 | pages = 283–296 | doi = 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2005.11.003 | bibcode = 2006EHumB..27..283P | s2cid = 32562654 }}</ref> Women have a ] in almost every population around the world.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.who.int/gender/documents/en/ | title = Gender, women, and health | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130625083240/https://www.who.int/gender/documents/en/ | archive-date=25 June 2013 | work = Reports from WHO 2002–2005 }}</ref> There are ] conditions in the human population, however these are rare.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Sax |first=Leonard |date=1 August 2002 |title=How common is lntersex? A response to Anne Fausto-Sterling |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00224490209552139 |journal=The Journal of Sex Research |language=en |volume=39 |issue=3 |pages=174–178 |doi=10.1080/00224490209552139 |pmid=12476264 |s2cid=33795209 |issn=0022-4499}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Esteban |first1=Caleb |last2=Ortiz-Rodz |first2=Derek Israel |last3=Muñiz-Pérez |first3=Yesibelle I. |last4=Ramírez-Vega |first4=Luis |last5=Jiménez-Ricaurte |first5=Coral |last6=Mattei-Torres |first6=Edna |last7=Finkel-Aguilar |first7=Victoria |date=2023-02-07 |title=Quality of Life and Psychosocial Well-Being among Intersex-Identifying Individuals in Puerto Rico: An Exploratory Study |journal=International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=2899 |doi=10.3390/ijerph20042899 |doi-access=free |issn=1661-7827 |pmc=9957316 |pmid=36833596}}</ref> | |||
The human body’s ability to ] to different environmental stresses is remarkable, allowing humans to acclimatize to a wide variety of ]s, ], and ]s. As a result, humans are a cosmopolitan species found in almost all regions of the world, including ]s, ], extremely cold ]s, and heavily polluted ]. Most other species are confined to a few geographical areas by their limited adaptability.<ref name=adapt1>{{cite web|last=O'Neil|first=Dennis|title=Human Biological Adaptability; Overview|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_1.htm|publisher=Palomar College|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> | |||
== Psychology == | |||
There is biological variation in the human species — with traits such as ], ]s, ], ] and type, ] and ], and ] varying across the globe. Human body types vary substantially. The average height of an adult human is between 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) to 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in) tall and this varies significantly depending on ] and ].<ref name=adapt2>{{cite web|last=O'Neil|first=Dennis|title=Adapting to Climate Extremes|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_2.htm|work=Human Biological Adaptability|publisher=Palomar College|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | author = de Beer H | title = Observations on the history of Dutch physical stature from the late-Middle Ages to the present | journal = Econ Hum Biol | volume = 2 | issue = 1 | pages = 45–55 | year = 2004 | pmid = 15463992 | doi = 10.1016/j.ehb.2003.11.001}}</ref> Body size is determined by genes and is significantly influenced by environmental factors such as ], ], and ]s, especially as an influence in ]. Adult height for one sex in a particular ethnic group follows more or less a ]. Those aspects of genetic variation that give clue to human evolutionary history, or which are relevant for medical research have received particular attention. For example the genes that cause adult humans to be able to ] are present in high frequencies in populations that have long histories of cattle domestication, suggesting natural selection having favored that gene in populations that depend on ]. Some hereditary diseases such as ] are frequent in populations where ] has been endemic throughout history — it is believed that the same gene causes increased resistance to Malaria among those who are unaffected carriers of the gene. Similarly, populations that have inhabited specific climates for a long time such as arctic or tropical regions or high altitudes, tend to have developed specific phenotypes that are beneficial for conserving energy in those environments — ], tall and lanky in hot regions, and with high lung capacities in high altitudes. Similarly, skin color varies ] with darker skin around the equator - where the added protection from the sun is thought to give an evolutionary advantage against ultraviolet radiation - and lighter skin tones closer to the poles.<ref name="Hedrick 2011">{{Cite journal |author=Hedrick PW |title=Population genetics of malaria resistance in humans |journal=Heredity |year=2011 |volume=107 |issue=4 |pages=283–304 |pmid=21427751 |doi=10.1038/hdy.2011.16 |pmc=3182497}} {{open access}}</ref><ref name="Weatherall 2008">{{cite journal |author=Weatherall DJ |title=Genetic variation and susceptibility to infection: The red cell and malaria |journal=British Journal of Haematology |year=2008 |volume=141 |issue=3 |pages=276–86 |doi=10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07085.x |pmid=18410566}}</ref><ref>Beja-Pereira A et al. Gene-culture coevolution between cattle milk protein genes and human lactase genes" ''Nat Genet'' 2003; 35: 311−313.</ref><ref name=jabl04>{{cite journal|last=Nina|first=Jablonski|title=The evolution of human skin and skin color|journal=Annual Review of Anthropology|year=2004|volume=33|pages=585–623}}</ref> | |||
{{Main|Psychology}}], showing several important structures]] | |||
The ], the focal point of the ] in humans, controls the ]. In addition to controlling "lower", involuntary, or primarily ] activities such as ] and ], it is also the locus of "higher" order functioning such as ], ]ing, and ].<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/index.html | title = 3-D Brain Anatomy | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170905064816/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/brain/3d/index.html | archive-date=5 September 2017 | work = The Secret Life of the Brain | publisher = Public Broadcasting Service | access-date = 3 April 2005 }}</ref> These ] constitute the ], and, along with their ]al consequences, are studied in the field of ]. | |||
The hue of human skin and hair is determined by the presence of ]s called ]s. Human skin color can range from ] to ], or even nearly white or colorless in cases of ].<ref name="roberts1">{{cite journal}}</ref> Human hair ranges in color from ] to ] to ] to the most commonly ].<ref>{{cite journal | author=Rogers, Alan R., Iltis, David & Wooding, Stephen | year=2004 | title=Genetic variation at the MC1R locus and the time since loss of human body hair | journal=Current Anthropology | volume=45 | issue=1 | pages=105–108 | doi=10.1086/381006}}</ref> Hair color depends on the amount of melanin (an effective sun blocking pigment) in the ] and hair, with hair melanin concentrations in hair fading with increased age, leading to ] or even white hair. Most researchers believe that skin darkening was an adaptation that evolved as a protection against ultraviolet solar radiation, which also helps balancing ], which is destroyed by ]. Light skin pigmentation provides advantages against ] depletion, which requires ] to make.<ref>Jablonski, N.G. & Chaplin, G. (2000). '''' (pdf), 'Journal of Human Evolution 39: 57–106.</ref> Skin pigmentation of contemporary humans is clinally distributed across the planet, and in general, correlates with the level of ultraviolet radiation in a particular geographic area. Human skin also has a capacity to darken (tan) in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Harding RM |title=Evidence for variable selective pressures at MC1R |journal=Am. J. Hum. Genet. |volume=66 |issue=4 |pages=1351–61 |year=2000 |month=April |pmid=10733465 |pmc=1288200 |doi=10.1086/302863 |url= |author-separator=, |author2=Healy E |author3=Ray AJ |display-authors=3 |last4=Ellis |first4=Nichola S. |last5=Flanagan |first5=Niamh |last6=Todd |first6=Carol |last7=Dixon |first7=Craig |last8=Sajantila |first8=Antti |last9=Jackson |first9=Ian J.}}</ref><ref>Robin, Ashley (1991). ''Biological Perspectives on Human Pigmentation''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</ref><ref name=jabl1>{{cite book|last=Muehlenbein|first=Michael|title=Human Evolutionary Biology|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=192–213}}</ref> | |||
Humans have a larger and more developed ] than other primates, the region of the brain associated with higher ].<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Stern P |date=22 June 2018|title=The human prefrontal cortex is special|url=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.2018.360.6395.twil|journal=Science|language=en|volume=360|issue=6395|pages=1311–1312|doi=10.1126/science.360.6395.1311-g|bibcode=2018Sci...360S1311S|s2cid=149581944|issn=0036-8075|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Levy |first=Richard |date=16 November 2023 |title=The prefrontal cortex: from monkey to man |journal=Brain |volume=147 |issue=3 |pages=794–815 |doi=10.1093/brain/awad389 |issn=0006-8950 |pmid=37972282|pmc=10907097 }}</ref> This has led humans to proclaim themselves to be more intelligent than any other known species.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Erickson R |date=22 September 2014|title=Are Humans the Most Intelligent Species?|journal=Journal of Intelligence|language=en|volume=2|issue=3|pages=119–121|doi=10.3390/jintelligence2030119|issn=2079-3200|doi-access=free}}</ref> Objectively defining intelligence is difficult, with other animals adapting senses and excelling in areas that humans are unable to.<ref>{{cite web|title=Humans not smarter than animals, just different, experts say|url=https://phys.org/news/2013-12-humans-smarter-animals-experts.html|access-date=24 October 2020|website=phys.org|language=en|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130063650/https://phys.org/news/2013-12-humans-smarter-animals-experts.html|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
====Structure of variation==== | |||
There are some traits that, although not strictly unique, do set humans apart from other animals.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Robson D|title=We've got human intelligence all wrong|url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161108-weve-got-human-intelligence-all-wrong|access-date=24 October 2020|website=www.bbc.com|language=en|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131122837/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20161108-weve-got-human-intelligence-all-wrong|url-status=live}}</ref> Humans may be the only animals who have ] and who can engage in "]".<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=Owen J|date=26 February 2015|title=Many Animals{{snd}}Including Your Dog{{snd}}May Have Horrible Short-Term Memories|work=National Geographic News|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/150225-dogs-memories-animals-chimpanzees-science-mind-psychology|access-date=6 September 2020|archive-date=19 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210419150625/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/150225-dogs-memories-animals-chimpanzees-science-mind-psychology|url-status=dead}}</ref> Even compared with other social animals, humans have an unusually high degree of flexibility in their facial expressions.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Schmidt KL, Cohn JF | title = Human facial expressions as adaptations: Evolutionary questions in facial expression research | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 116 | issue = S33 | pages = 3–24 | date = 2001 | pmid = 11786989 | pmc = 2238342 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.20001 }}</ref> Humans are the only animals known to cry emotional tears.<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=Moisse K|date=5 January 2011|title=Tears in Her Eyes: A Turnoff for Guys?|language=en|work=ABC News (American)|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/womens-tears-chemical-turnoff-men/story?id=12540975|access-date=22 April 2020|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130050944/https://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/womens-tears-chemical-turnoff-men/story?id=12540975|url-status=live}}</ref> Humans are one of the few animals able to self-recognize in ]s<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=Deleniv S|date=2018|title=The 'me' illusion: How your brain conjures up your sense of self|work=New Scientist|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931940-100-the-me-illusion-how-your-brain-conjures-up-your-sense-of-self/|access-date=22 April 2020|archive-date=18 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210218175649/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23931940-100-the-me-illusion-how-your-brain-conjures-up-your-sense-of-self/|url-status=live}}</ref> and there is also debate over to what extent humans are the only animals with a ].<ref>{{cite news |last=Beck |first=Jacob |date=September 7, 2019 |title=Can We Really Know What Animals Are Thinking? |url=https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/09/07/can-we-really-know-what-animals-are-thinking/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211031062624/https://www.snopes.com/news/2019/09/07/can-we-really-know-what-animals-are-thinking/ |archive-date=31 October 2021 |access-date=22 April 2020 |work=Snopes}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Penn |first1=Derek C. |last2=Povinelli |first2=Daniel J. |date=2007-04-29 |title=On the lack of evidence that non-human animals possess anything remotely resembling a 'theory of mind' |journal=Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences |volume=362 |issue=1480 |pages=731–744 |doi=10.1098/rstb.2006.2023 |issn=0962-8436 |pmc=2346530 |pmid=17264056}}</ref> | |||
], a ]n, a ], and an ], drawing by an unknown artist after a mural of the tomb of ].]] | |||
], such as this ] woman, crossed into the Americas from Northeast Asia, and genetic and linguistic evidence links them to North Asian populations, particularly those of ].<ref>{{cite web|title=Journey of Mankind|url=http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/|work=Peopling of the World|publisher=Bradshaw Foundation|accessdate=10 August 2013}}</ref> ]] | |||
Within the human species, the greatest degree of genetic ]. While the ] genetic variation of individuals of the same sex across global populations is no greater than 0.1%, the genetic difference between ] and ] is between 1% and 2%. Although different in nature, this approaches the genetic differentiation between men and male chimpanzees or women and female chimpanzees. The genetic difference between sexes contributes to anatomical, hormonal, neural, and physiological differences between men and women, although the exact degree and nature of social and environmental influences on sexes are not completely understood. Males on average are 15% heavier and 15 cm taller than females. There is a difference between body types, body organs and systems, hormonal levels, sensory systems, and muscle mass between sexes. There is a difference of about 40-50% in upper body strength and 20-30% in lower body strength between men and women. Women generally have higher ] percentage than men. Women of the same population have ] than men; this has been explained by a higher need for vitamin D (which is synthesized by sunlight) in females during ] and ]. As there are chromosomal differences between females and males, some X and Y chromosome related conditions and ]s only affect either men or women. Other conditional differences between males and females are not related to sex chromosomes. Even after controlling for body weight and volume, male ] is usually an ] deeper than females’. Women have a ] in almost every population around the world.<ref name="Birke, Lydia 2001">Birke, Lydia. The Gender and Science Reader ed. Muriel Lederman and Ingrid Bartsch. New York, Routledge, 2001. 306-322</ref><ref name="Gustafsson">{{cite journal | author=Gustafsson A & Lindenfors P | year=2004 | title=Human size evolution: no allometric relationship between male and female stature | journal=Journal of Human Evolution | volume=47 | pages=253–266 | doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.07.004 | pmid=15454336 | issue=4}}</ref><ref>''Dominance and the evolution of sexual dimorphism in human voice pitch'' Puts, David Andrew and Gaulin, Steven J.C and Verdolini, Katherine; Evolution and Human Behavior, ISSN 1090-5138, 2006, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp. 283 - 296</ref><ref name="NHANES_III_data">{{cite web|url=http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad347.pdf |title=Ogden et al (2004). Mean Body Weight, Height,and Body Mass Index, United States 1960–2002 ''Advance Data from Vital and Health Statistics'', Number 347, October 27, 2004. |format=PDF |date= |accessdate=2013-07-27}}</ref><ref name="Stephens">{{dead link|date=May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | doi = 10.1007/BF00235103 | last1 = Miller | first1 = AE | last2 = MacDougall | first2 = JD | last3 = Tarnopolsky | first3 = MA | last4 = Sale | first4 = DG | title = Gender differences in strength and muscle fiber characteristics | journal = European journal of applied physiology and occupational physiology | volume = 66 | issue = 3 | pages = 254–62 | year = 1993 | pmid = 8477683 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1796447.stm | work=BBC News | title=Women nose ahead in smell tests | date=2002-02-04 | accessdate=2010-05-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/10/051025073319.htm |title=Study Reveals Reason Women Are More Sensitive To Pain Than Men |publisher=Sciencedaily.com |date=2005-10-25 |accessdate=2013-07-27}}</ref><ref name="WHO"> Reports from WHO 2002–2005</ref> | |||
=== Sleep and dreaming === | |||
Males typically have larger ] and branching ], with about 30 percent greater ] per ]. They have larger ]s, 10 percent higher ] count, higher ], hence greater oxygen-carrying capacity. They also have higher circulating ] (], pro] and ]s). These differences lead to faster healing of ]s and higher peripheral pain tolerance.<ref name="Glucksman">{{cite book |author=Alfred Glucksman |year=1981 |title=Sexual Dimorphism in Human and Mammalian Biology and Pathology |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-12-286960-0 |pages=66–75 |oclc=7831448 }}</ref> Females typically have more ]s (stored and circulating), more ]s and B and T ]s. Additionally, they produce more ] at a faster rate than males. Hence they develop fewer ] diseases and succumb for shorter periods.<ref name="Glucksman" /> ] argue that females, interacting with other females and multiple offspring in social groups, have experienced such traits as a ] advantage.<ref>{{cite book |author=Jo Durden-Smith & Diane deSimone |year=1983 |title=Sex and the Brain |location=New York |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-87795-484-2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Eileen S. Gersh & Isidore Gersh |year=1981 |title=Biology of Women |location= Baltimore |publisher=] |isbn=978-0-8391-1622-6 |lccn=80-025534 |oclc=6914860}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=Jay H. Stein |year=1987 |title=Internal Medicine |publisher=] |location=Boston |isbn=978-0-316-81236-8 |edition=2nd}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=M. McLaughlin & T. Shryer |title=Men vs women: the new debate over sex differences |journal=] |date=8 August 1988 |pages=50–58}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=B. S. McEwen |year=1981 |title=Neural gonadal steroid actions |journal=] |volume=211 |issue=4488 |pages=1303–1311 |pmid=6259728 |doi=10.1126/science.6259728|bibcode = 1981Sci...211.1303M }}</ref> According to Daly and Wilson, "The sexes differ more in human beings than in monogamous mammals, but much less than in extremely polygamous mammals."<ref>{{cite book |author=Martin Daly & Margo Wilson |year=1996 |chapter=Evolutionary psychology and marital conflict |title=Sex, Power, Conflict: Evolutionary and Feminist Perspectives |editor=] & Neil M. Malamuth |publisher=] |page=13 |isbn=978-0-19-510357-1}}</ref> But given that sexual dimorphism in our closest primate relatives is much greater than among humans, the human clade must be considered to be characterized by decreasing sexual dimorphism, probably due to less competitive mating patterns. One proposed explanation is that human sexuality has developed more in common with its close relative the ], who have similar sexual dimorphism and which are ] and use ] to reinforce social bonds and reduce aggression.<ref>{{Cite book |author=Christopher Ryan & Cacilda Jethá |year=2010 |title=] |publisher=Harper |isbn=978-0-06-170780-3}}</ref> | |||
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Humans are generally ]. The average sleep requirement is between seven and nine hours per day for an adult and nine to ten hours per day for a child; elderly people usually sleep for six to seven hours. Having less sleep than this is common among humans, even though ] can have negative health effects. A sustained restriction of adult sleep to four hours per day has been shown to correlate with changes in physiology and mental state, including reduced memory, fatigue, aggression, and bodily discomfort.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Grandner MA, Patel NP, Gehrman PR, Perlis ML, Pack AI | title = Problems associated with short sleep: bridging the gap between laboratory and epidemiological studies | journal = Sleep Medicine Reviews | volume = 14 | issue = 4 | pages = 239–247 | date = August 2010 | pmid = 19896872 | pmc = 2888649 | doi = 10.1016/j.smrv.2009.08.001 }}</ref><!--cites previous two sentences--> | |||
During sleep humans dream, where they experience sensory images and sounds. Dreaming is stimulated by the ] and mostly occurs during the ].<ref>{{cite web| vauthors = Ann L |date=27 January 2005|title=HowStuffWorks "Dreams: Stages of Sleep"|url=https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/dream2.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515212353/https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/life/human-biology/dream2.htm|archive-date=15 May 2012|access-date=11 August 2012|publisher=Science.howstuffworks.com}}</ref> The length of a dream can vary, from a few seconds up to 30 minutes.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hobson JA | title = REM sleep and dreaming: towards a theory of protoconsciousness | journal = Nature Reviews. Neuroscience | volume = 10 | issue = 11 | pages = 803–813 | date = November 2009 | pmid = 19794431 | doi = 10.1038/nrn2716 | s2cid = 205505278 }}</ref> Humans have three to five dreams per night, and some may have up to seven.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Empson J | date = 2002 | title = Sleep and dreaming | edition = 3rd | location = New York | publisher = Palgrave/St. Martin's Press }}</ref> Dreamers are more likely to remember the dream if awakened during the REM phase. The events in dreams are generally outside the control of the dreamer, with the exception of ]ing, where the dreamer is ].<ref>{{cite web| vauthors = Lite J |date=29 July 2010|title=How Can You Control Your Dreams?|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-control-dreams/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150202070145/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-control-dreams/|archive-date=2 February 2015|website=Scientific America}}</ref> Dreams can at times make a ] thought occur or give a sense of ].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Domhoff W | date = 2002 | title = The scientific study of dreams | publisher = APA Press }}</ref> | |||
Humans of the same sex are 99.9% genetically identical. There is extremely little variation between human geographical populations and most of the variation that does occur is in the personal level within local areas, and not between populations.<ref name=roberts1>{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Dorothy|title=Fatal Invention|year=2011|publisher=The New Press|location=London, New York}}</ref><ref name=hgp>{{cite web|title=The Science Behind the Human Genome Project|url=http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/project/info.shtml|work=Human Genome Project|publisher=US Department of Energy|accessdate=6 January 2013|quote=Almost all (99.9%) nucleotide bases are exactly the same in all people.}}</ref><ref name=enr1>{{cite web|last=O'Neil|first=Dennis|title=Ethnicity and Race: Overview|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/ethnicity/ethnic_1.htm#return_from_ethnic_identity_question|publisher=Palomar College|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> Of the 0.1% of human genetic differentiation, 85% exists within any randomly chosen local population, be they Italians, Koreans, or Kurds. Two randomly chosen Koreans may be genetically as different as a Korean and an Italian. Any ethnic group contains 85% of the human genetic diversity of the world. Genetic data shows that no matter how population groups are defined, two people from the same population group are about as different from each other as two people from any two different population groups<ref name=roberts1>{{cite book}}</ref><ref name=goodman1>{{cite web|last=Goodman|first=Alan|title=Interview with Alan Goodman|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-07.htm|work=Race Power of and Illusion|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref>Marks, J. (2010) Ten facts about human variation. In: Human Evolutionary Biology, edited by M. Muehlenbein. New York: Cambridge University Press </ref> | |||
=== Consciousness and thought === | |||
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Current genetic research have demonstrated that humans on the ] are the most genetically diverse.<ref name=Jorde2000>{{cite journal |author=Jorde, L.; Watkins, W; Bamshad, M; Dixon, M; Ricker, C.; Seielstad, M.; Batzer, M. |title=The distribution of human genetic diversity: a comparison of mitochondrial, autosomal, and Y-chromosome data |journal=American Journal of Human Genetics |volume=66 |issue=3 |pages=979–988 |year=2000 |pmc=1288178 |pmid=10712212 |doi=10.1086/302825}}</ref> There is more human genetic diversity in Africa than anywhere else on Earth. The genetic structure of Africans was traced to 14 ancestral population clusters. Human genetic diversity decreases in native populations with migratory distance from Africa and this is thought to be the result of ]s during human migration.<ref name="sciencedaily.com"> | |||
Human consciousness, at its simplest, is ] or ] of internal or external existence.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Consciousness|dictionary=Merriam-Webster|access-date=4 June 2012|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consciousness|archive-date=7 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190907122314/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/consciousness|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite centuries of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial,<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|vauthors=van Gulick R|year=2004|title=Consciousness|encyclopedia=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=14 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191014065308/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness/|url-status=live}}</ref> being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives".<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Schneider S, Velmans M |author2-link=Max Velmans |title=The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness |publisher=Wiley|year=2008|isbn=978-0-470-75145-9| veditors = Velmans M, Schneider S |chapter=Introduction}}</ref> The only widely agreed notion about the topic is the intuition that it exists.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Searle J |title=The Oxford companion to philosophy|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2005|isbn=978-0-19-926479-7| veditors = Honderich T|chapter=Consciousness|author-link=John Searle}}</ref> Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied and explained as consciousness. Some philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness, which is sensory experience itself, and access consciousness, which can be used for reasoning or directly controlling actions.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Block N | title = On a confusion about a function of consciousness. | journal = Behavioral and Brain Sciences | date = June 1995 | volume = 18 | issue = 2 | pages = 227–247 | doi = 10.1017/S0140525X00038474 | s2cid = 246244859 | doi-access = free }}</ref> It is sometimes synonymous with 'the mind', and at other times, an aspect of it. Historically it is associated with ], private ], ] and ].<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Jaynes J|url=https://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/pdfs/Julian_Jaynes_The_Origin_of_Consciousness.pdf|title=The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=2000|isbn=0-618-05707-2|author-link=Julian Jaynes|orig-year=1976|access-date=25 October 2020|archive-date=7 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807100304/https://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/pdfs/Julian_Jaynes_The_Origin_of_Consciousness.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref> It now often includes some kind of ], ], ] or ]. It may be 'awareness', or ']', or ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Rochat P | title = Five levels of self-awareness as they unfold early in life | journal = Consciousness and Cognition | volume = 12 | issue = 4 | pages = 717–731 | date = December 2003 | pmid = 14656513 | doi = 10.1016/s1053-8100(03)00081-3 | s2cid = 10241157 }}</ref> There might be different levels or ],<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Carruthers P|date=15 August 2011|title=Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/|access-date=31 August 2014|website=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|archive-date=13 April 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413163246/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/consciousness-higher/|url-status=live}}</ref> or different kinds of consciousness, or just one kind with different features.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Antony MV |year=2001|title=Is ''consciousness'' ambiguous?|journal=Journal of Consciousness Studies|volume=8|pages=19–44}}</ref> | |||
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The process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses is known as cognition.<ref>{{cite web|title=Cognition|url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/cognition|access-date=6 May 2020|website=Lexico|publisher=] and ]|archive-date=8 July 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160708041349/http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/cognition|url-status=dead}}</ref> The human brain ] the external world through the ]s, and each individual human is influenced greatly by his or her experiences, leading to ] views of ] and the passage of time.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Glattfelder JB | title = Information—Consciousness—Reality| chapter = The Consciousness of Reality|date=2019 |pages=515–595| veditors = Glattfelder JB |series=The Frontiers Collection|place=Cham|publisher=Springer International Publishing|language=en|doi=10.1007/978-3-030-03633-1_14|isbn=978-3-030-03633-1 | s2cid = 189379814}}</ref> The nature of thought is central to psychology and related fields. ] studies ], the ] underlying behavior.<ref>{{cite web|title=American Psychological Association (2013). Glossary of psychological terms|url=https://www.apa.org/research/action/glossary.aspx|access-date=13 August 2014|publisher=Apa.org|archive-date=8 July 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708064652/http://www.apa.org/research/action/glossary.aspx|url-status=live}}</ref> Largely focusing on the development of the human mind through the life span, ] seeks to understand how people come to perceive, understand, and act within the world and how these processes change as they age.<ref>{{cite web|title=Developmental Psychology Studies Human Development Across the Lifespan|url=https://www.apa.org/action/science/developmental/index.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140709054242/https://www.apa.org/action/science/developmental/index.aspx|archive-date=9 July 2014|access-date=28 August 2017|website=www.apa.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Burman E |title=Deconstructing Developmental Psychology|publisher=Routledge|year=2017|isbn=978-1-138-84695-1|location=New York }}</ref> This may focus on intellectual, cognitive, neural, social, or ]. ] have developed intelligence tests and the concept of ] in order to assess the relative intelligence of human beings and study its ] among population.<ref>{{Cite journal| vauthors = Colom R |date=1 January 2004|title=Intelligence Assessment |journal=Encyclopedia of Applied Psychology|language=en|pages=307–314|doi=10.1016/B0-12-657410-3/00510-9|isbn=978-0-12-657410-4}}</ref> | |||
Geographical distribution of human variation is complex and constantly shifts through time which reflects complicated human evolutionary history. Most human biological variation is ]ly distributed and blends gradually from an area to the next. Groups of people around the world have different frequencies of ] genes. Furthermore, different traits are non-concordant and each have different clinal distribution. Adaptability varies both from person to person and from population to population. The most efficient adaptive responses are found in geographical populations where the environmental stimuli are the strongest (e.g. ] are highly adapted to high altitudes). The clinal geographic genetic variation is further complicated by the migration and mixing between human populations which has been occurring since prehistoric times.<ref name=roberts1>{{cite book}}</ref><ref name=adapt3>{{cite web|last=O'Neil|first=Dennis|title=Adapting to High Altitude|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_3.htm|work=Human Biological Adaptability|publisher=Palomar College|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=adapt03>{{cite web|last=O'Neil|first=Dennis|title=Overview|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_1.htm|work=Human Biological Adaptability|publisher=Palomar College|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=vary02>{{cite web|last=O'Neil|first=Dennis|title=Models of Classification|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_2.htm|work=Modern Human Variation|publisher=Palomar College|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=pbsmarks1>{{cite web|last=Marks|first=Jonathan|title=Interview with Jonathan Marks|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-08.htm|work=Race - The Power of an Illusion|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=pbsgoodman1>{{cite web|last=Goodman|first=Alan|title=Background Readings|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-10.htm|work=Race - Power of an Illusion|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> | |||
=== Motivation and emotion === | |||
Human variation is highly non-concordant: most of the genes do not cluster together and are not inherited together. Skin and hair color are not correlated to height, weight, or athletic ability. Human species do not share the same patterns of variation through geography. Skin color varies with latitude and certain people are tall or have brown hair. There is a statistical correlation between particular features in a population, but different features are not expressed or inherited together. Thus, genes which code for superficial physical traits – such as skin color, hair color, or height – represent a minuscule and insignificant portion of the human genome and do not correlate with genetic affinity. Dark-skinned populations that are found in Africa, Australia, and South Asia are not closely related to each other.<ref name=jabl04>{{cite journal|last=Nina|first=Jablonski|title=The evolution of human skin and skin color|quote=genetic evidence that strong levels of natural selection acted about 1.2 mya to produce darkly pigmented skin in early members of the genus Homo|journal=Annual Review of Anthropology|year=2004|volume=33|pages=585–623}}</ref><ref name=jabl1>{{cite book|last=Muehlenbein|first=Michael|title=Human Evolutionary Biology|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=192–213}}</ref><ref name=pbsmarks1>{{cite web|last=Marks|first=Jonathan|title=Interview with Jonathan Marks|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-08.htm|work=Race - The Power of an Illusion|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=pbsgoodman1>{{cite web|last=Goodman|first=Alan|title=Background Readings|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-10.htm|work=Race - Power of an Illusion|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=Bower>{{cite journal|last=Bower|first=C.|coauthors=Stanley|title=The role of nutritional factors in the aetiology of neural tube defects|journal=Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health|year=1992|volume=28|pages=12–16}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=O'Neil|first=Dennis|title=Overview|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_1.htm|work=Modern Human Variation|publisher=Palomar College|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> Even within the same region, physical phenotype is not related to genetic affinity: dark-skinned ]ns are more closely related to light-skinned ] than to dark-skinned ] populations.<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/ng761 |year=2001 |last1=Wilson |first1=James F. |last2=Weale |first2=Michael E. |last3=Smith |first3=Alice C. |last4=Gratrix |first4=Fiona |last5=Fletcher |first5=Benjamin |last6=Thomas |first6=Mark G. |last7=Bradman |first7=Neil |last8=Goldstein |first8=David B. |journal=Nature Genetics |volume=29 |pages=265–9 |pmid=11685208 |title=Population genetic structure of variable drug response |issue=3|quote=62% of the Ethiopians fall in the first cluster, which encompasses the majority of the Jews, Norwegians and Armenians, indicating that placement of these individuals in a ‘Black’ cluster would be an inaccurate reflection of the genetic structure. Only 24% of the Ethiopians are placed in the cluster with the Bantu}}</ref> Despite ] populations of ] (]) have similar physical features with African pygmy populations such as short stature, dark skin, and curly hair, they are not genetically closely related to these populations.<ref name=liu>Liu, James J.Y. The Chinese Knight Errant. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1967 ISBN 0-226-48688-5.</ref> Genetic variants affecting superficial anatomical features (such as skin color) – from a genetic perspective, are essentially meaningless – they involve a few hundred of the billions of nucleotides in a person's DNA.<ref name=natgeo>{{cite web|last=Iqbal|first=Saadia|title=A New Light on Skin Color|url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0211/feature2/online_extra.html|publisher=National Geographic Magazine|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref> Individuals with the same morphology do not necessarily cluster with each other by lineage, and a given lineage does not include only individuals with the same trait complex.<ref name=roberts1>{{cite book}}</ref><ref name=goodman1>{{cite web|last=Goodman|first=Alan|title=Interview with Alan Goodman|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-07.htm|work=Race Power of and Illusion|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=Keita1>{{cite journal|last=Keita|coauthors=Kittles, Royal, Bonney, Furbert-Harris, Dunston, Rotimi|journal=Nature|year=2004|volume=36|pages=S17-S20|doi=10.1038/ng1455|url=http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/full/ng1455.html|title=Conceptualizing human variation|pmid=15507998}}</ref> | |||
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Human motivation is not yet wholly understood. From a psychological perspective, ] is a well-established theory that can be defined as the process of satisfying certain needs in ascending order of complexity.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html|title=Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs|vauthors=McLeod S|date=20 March 2020|website=Simplypsychology.org|publisher=Simply Scholar Limited|access-date=4 April 2020|quote=Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a motivational theory in psychology comprising a five-tier model of human needs, often depicted as hierarchical levels within a pyramid. Needs lower down in the hierarchy must be satisfied before individuals can attend to needs higher up.|archive-date=8 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108083314/https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html|url-status=live}}</ref> From a more general, philosophical perspective, human motivation can be defined as a commitment to, or withdrawal from, various goals requiring the application of human ability. Furthermore, ] and ] are both factors, as are any perceived links between incentives and preferences. ] may also be involved, in which case willpower is also a factor. Ideally, both motivation and volition ensure the selection, striving for, and ] of goals in an optimal manner, a ] beginning in childhood and continuing throughout a lifetime in a process known as ].<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Heckhausen J, Heckhausen H |chapter=Motivation and Action: Introduction and Overview |date=28 March 2018|title=Motivation and Action|location=Introduction and Overview|publisher=Springer, Cham|page=1|isbn=978-3-319-65093-7|doi=10.1007/978-3-319-65094-4_1}}</ref> | |||
Due to practices of group ], allele frequencies cluster locally around kin groups and lineages, or by national, ethnic, cultural and linguistic boundaries, giving a detailed degree of correlation between genetic clusters and population groups when considering many alleles simultaneously. Despite this, there are no genetic boundaries around local populations that biologically mark off any ] of humans. Human variation is continuous, with no clear points of demarcation. There are no large clusters of relatively homogeneous people and almost every individual has genetic alleles from several ancestral groups.<ref name=roberts1>{{cite book}}</ref><ref name=vary02>{{cite web|last=O'Neil|first=Dennis|title=Models of Classification|url=http://anthro.palomar.edu/vary/vary_2.htm|work=Modern Human Variation|publisher=Palomar College|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=pbsmarks1>{{cite web|last=Marks|first=Jonathan|title=Interview with Jonathan Marks|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-08.htm|work=Race - The Power of an Illusion|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013}}</ref><ref name=Keita2>{{cite journal|last=Keita|coauthors=Kittles, Royal, Bonney, Furbert-Harris, Dunston, Rotimi|journal=Nature|year=2004|volume=36|pages=S17-S20|doi=10.1038/ng1455|url=http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/v36/n11s/box/ng1455_BX1.html|quote=Modern human biological variation is not structured into phylogenetic subspecies ('races'), nor are the taxa of the standard anthropological 'racial' classifications breeding populations. The 'racial taxa' do not meet the phylogenetic criteria. 'Race' denotes socially constructed units as a function of the incorrect usage of the term.|title=Conceptualizing human variation|pmid=15507998}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=Census, race and science|journal=Nature Genetics|year=2000|volume=24|pages=97–98|doi=10.1038/72884|quote=That race (…) is not a scientific term is generally agreed upon by scientists—and a message that cannot be repeated often enough.}}</ref><ref name=harrison1>{{cite book|last=Harrison|first=Guy|title=Race and Reality|year=2010|publisher=Prometheus Books|location=Amherst|quote=Race is a poor empirical description of the patterns of difference that we encounter within our species. The billions of humans alive today simply do not fit into neat and tidy biological boxes called races. Science has proven this conclusively. The concept of race (...) is not scientific and goes against what is known about our ever-changing and complex biological diversity.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Roberts|first=Dorothy|title=Fatal Invention|year=2011|publisher=The New Press|location=London, New York|quote=The genetic differences that exist among populations are characterized by gradual changes across geographic regions, not sharp, categorical distinctions. Groups of people across the globe have varying frequencies of polymorphic genes, which are genes with any of several differing nucleotide sequences. There is no such thing as a set of genes that belongs exclusively to one group and not to another. The clinal, gradually changing nature of geographic genetic difference is complicated further by the migration and mixing that human groups have engaged in since prehistory. Genetic studies have substantiated the absence of clear biological borders; thus the term "race" is rarely used in scientific terminology, either in biological anthropology and in human genetics. Race has no genetic or biological basis. Human beings do not fit the zoological definition of race. Race is not a biological category that is politically charged. It is a political category that has been disguised as a biological one.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Goodman|first=Alan|title=Interview with Alan Goodman|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_About/002_04-background-01-07.htm|work=Race Power of and Illusion|publisher=PBS|accessdate=6 January 2013|quote=There's no biological basis for race. And that is in the facts of biology, the facts of non-concordance, the facts of continuous variation, the recentness of our evolution, the way that we all commingle and come together, and how genes flow. (…) There's no generalizability to race. There is no center there (…). It's fluid.}}</ref><ref>Steve Olson, Mapping Human History: Discovering the Past Through Our Genes, Boston, 2002</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=RACE - The Power of an Illusion|url=http://www.pbs.org/race/000_General/000_00-Home.htm|publisher=PBS|accessdate=2 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|last=Jablonski|first=Nina|title=The evolution of human skin and skin color|journal=Annual Review of Anthropology|year=2004|volume=33|pages=585–623}}</ref><ref name="Palmie2007">{{Cite journal|doi=10.1525/ae.2007.34.2.205 |title=Genomics, divination, 'racecraft' |year=2007 |last1=Palmié |first1=Stephan |journal=American Ethnologist |volume=34 |pages=205–22 |month=May}}</ref> | |||
Emotions are ] states associated with the nervous system<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Damasio AR | title = Emotion in the perspective of an integrated nervous system | journal = Brain Research. Brain Research Reviews | volume = 26 | issue = 2–3 | pages = 83–86 | date = May 1998 | pmid = 9651488 | doi = 10.1016/s0165-0173(97)00064-7 | s2cid = 8504450 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Ekman P, Davidson RJ |title=The Nature of emotion : fundamental questions|date=1994|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-508944-8|location=New York|pages=291–293|quote=Emotional processing, but not emotions, can occur unconsciously.}}</ref> brought on by ] changes variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of ] or ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cabanac M | date = 2002 | title = What is emotion? | journal = Behavioural Processes | volume = 60 | issue = 2 | pages = 69–83 | quote = Emotion is any mental experience with high intensity and high hedonic content (pleasure/displeasure) | doi = 10.1016/S0376-6357(02)00078-5 | pmid = 12426062 | s2cid = 24365776 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Scirst DL |url= https://archive.org/details/psychology0000scha/page/310 |title=Psychology Second Edition|publisher=Worth Publishers|year=2011|isbn=978-1-4292-3719-2|location=New York|page=}}</ref> They are often ] with ], ], ], ], ],<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Averill JR | title = Individual differences in emotional creativity: structure and correlates | journal = Journal of Personality | volume = 67 | issue = 2 | pages = 331–371 | date = April 1999 | pmid = 10202807 | doi = 10.1111/1467-6494.00058 }}</ref> and motivation. Emotion has a significant influence on human behavior and their ability to learn.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Tyng CM, Amin HU, Saad MN, Malik AS | title = The Influences of Emotion on Learning and Memory | journal = Frontiers in Psychology | volume = 8 | page = 1454 | date = 2017 | pmid = 28883804 | pmc = 5573739 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01454 | doi-access = free }}</ref> Acting on extreme or uncontrolled emotions can lead to social disorder and crime,<ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Van Gelder JL|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317042659|title=Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=November 2016|veditors=Wright R|chapter=Emotions in Criminal Decision Making|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=29 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129211201/https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317042659|url-status=live}}</ref> with studies showing criminals may have a lower ] than normal.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Sharma N, Prakash O, Sengar KS, Chaudhury S, Singh AR | title = The relation between emotional intelligence and criminal behavior: A study among convicted criminals | journal = Industrial Psychiatry Journal | volume = 24 | issue = 1 | pages = 54–58 | date = 2015 | pmid = 26257484 | pmc = 4525433 | doi = 10.4103/0972-6748.160934 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | |||
==Psychology== | |||
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Emotional experiences perceived as ], such as ], ] or ], contrast with those perceived as ], like ], ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Fredrickson BL | title = The role of positive emotions in positive psychology. The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions | journal = The American Psychologist | volume = 56 | issue = 3 | pages = 218–226 | date = March 2001 | pmid = 11315248 | pmc = 3122271 | doi = 10.1037/0003-066X.56.3.218 }}</ref> ], or the state of being happy, is a human emotional condition. The definition of happiness is a common philosophical topic. Some define it as experiencing the ] of positive ], while avoiding the negative ones.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Haybron DM | title = The proper pursuit of happiness. | journal = Res Philosophica | date = August 2013 | volume = 90 | issue = 3 | pages = 387–411 | doi = 10.11612/resphil.2013.90.3.5 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Haybron DM | date = 13 April 2014 | work = The Opinion Pages | publisher = The New York Times | title = Happiness and Its Discontents | url = https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/happiness-and-its-discontents/ | quote = I would suggest that when we talk about happiness, we are actually referring, much of the time, to a complex emotional phenomenon. Call it emotional well-being. Happiness as emotional well-being concerns your emotions and moods, more broadly your emotional condition as a whole. To be happy is to inhabit a favorable emotional state.... On this view, we can think of happiness, loosely, as the opposite of anxiety and depression. Being in good spirits, quick to laugh and slow to anger, at peace and untroubled, confident and comfortable in your own skin, engaged, energetic and full of life. | access-date = 30 July 2022 | archive-date = 12 October 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181012094415/https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/happiness-and-its-discontents/ | url-status = live }}</ref> Others see it as an appraisal of ] or ].<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Graham MC |title=Facts of Life: ten issues of contentment|date=2014|publisher=Outskirts Press|isbn=978-1-4787-2259-5|pages=6–10}}</ref> Recent research suggests that being happy might involve experiencing some negative emotions when humans feel they are warranted.<ref>{{cite web|date=14 August 2017|title=Secret to happiness may include more unpleasant emotions: Research contradicts idea that people should always seek pleasure to be happy|url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170814092813.htm|access-date=25 October 2020|website=ScienceDaily|publisher=]|language=en|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111181025/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170814092813.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
The human brain, the focal point of the ] in humans, controls the ]. In addition to controlling "lower", involuntary, or primarily ] activities such as ] and ], it is also the locus of "higher" order functioning such as ], ]ing, and ].<ref>, ''The Secret Life of the Brain'', Public Broadcasting Service. Retrieved April 3, 2005.</ref> These ] constitute the ], and, along with their ]al consequences, are studied in the field of ]. | |||
=== Sexuality and love === | |||
Generally regarded as more capable of these higher order activities, the human brain is believed to be more "intelligent" in general than that of any other known species. While some non-human species are capable of creating structures and ]—mostly through instinct and mimicry—human technology is vastly more complex, and is constantly evolving and improving through time. | |||
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For humans, sexuality involves ], ], ], ], ], or ] feelings and behaviors.<ref name="S. Greenberg">{{cite book|vauthors=Greenberg JS, Bruess CE, Oswalt SB|url={{GBurl|id=8iarCwAAQBAJ|p=4}}|title=Exploring the Dimensions of Human Sexuality|publisher=]|year=2016|isbn=978-1-284-08154-1|pages=4–10|quote=Human sexuality is a part of your total personality. It involves the interrelationship of biological, psychological, and sociocultural dimensions. It is the total of our physical, emotional, and spiritual responses, thoughts, and feelings.|access-date=21 June 2017}}</ref><ref name="Bolin">{{cite book| vauthors = Bolin A, Whelehan P |url={{GBurl|id=qrPHYok19v8C|p=32}}|title=Human Sexuality: Biological, Psychological, and Cultural Perspectives|publisher=]|year=2009|isbn=978-0-7890-2671-2|pages=32–42}}</ref> Because it is a broad term, which has varied with historical contexts over time, it lacks a precise definition.<ref name="Bolin" /> The biological and physical aspects of sexuality largely concern the ], including the ].<ref name="S. Greenberg" /><ref name="Bolin" /> Sexuality also affects and is affected by cultural, political, legal, philosophical, ], ], and religious aspects of life.<ref name="S. Greenberg" /><ref name="Bolin" /> Sexual desire, or '']'', is a basic mental state present at the beginning of sexual behavior. Studies show that men desire sex more than women and ] more often.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Younis I, Abdel-Rahman SH |date=2013|title=Sex difference in libido |journal=Human Andrology|language=en-US|volume=3|issue=4|pages=85–89|doi=10.1097/01.XHA.0000432482.01760.b0|s2cid=147235090}}</ref> | |||
Humans can fall anywhere along a continuous scale of ],<ref>{{cite web|title=Sexual orientation, homosexuality and bisexuality|url=https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130808032050/https://www.apa.org/helpcenter/sexual-orientation.aspx|archive-date=8 August 2013|access-date=10 August 2013|publisher=]}}</ref> although most humans are ].<ref name=Bailey16 /><ref name=LeVay /> While ] behavior ], only humans and ] have so far been found to exhibit exclusive preference for same-sex relationships.<ref name=Bailey16 /> Most evidence supports nonsocial, ],<ref name="Bailey16">{{cite journal | vauthors = Bailey JM, Vasey PL, Diamond LM, Breedlove SM, Vilain E, Epprecht M | title = Sexual Orientation, Controversy, and Science | journal = Psychological Science in the Public Interest | volume = 17 | issue = 2 | pages = 45–101 | date = September 2016 | pmid = 27113562 | doi = 10.1177/1529100616637616 | doi-access = free }}</ref> as cultures that are very tolerant of homosexuality do not have significantly higher rates of it.<ref name="LeVay">{{cite book|vauthors=LeVay S|url={{GBurl|id=HmQFFfa03nkC}}|title=Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation|date=2017|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-975296-6|pages=8, 19|access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|vauthors=Balthazart J|url={{GBurl|id=3fjGjlcVINkC}}|title=The Biology of Homosexuality|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-983882-0|pages=13–14|access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> Research in ] and ] suggests that other aspects of human sexuality are biologically influenced as well.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Buss DM |year=2003 |title=The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. | edition = Revised |location=New York |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-00802-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/evolutionofdesir00buss }}</ref> | |||
===Sleep and dreaming=== | |||
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Humans are generally ]. The average sleep requirement is between seven and nine hours per day for an adult and nine to ten hours per day for a child; elderly people usually sleep for six to seven hours. Having less sleep than this is common among humans, even though ] can have negative health effects. A sustained restriction of adult sleep to four hours per day has been shown to correlate with changes in physiology and mental state, including reduced memory, fatigue, aggression, and bodily discomfort.<ref name=Grandner2010>{{cite journal |author=Grandner, Michael A.; Patel, Nirav P.; Gehrman, Philip R.; Perlis, Michael L.; Pack, Allan I. |title=Problems associated with short sleep: bridging the gap between laboratory and epidemiological studies |journal=Sleep Medicine Reviews |year=2010 |volume=14 |issue=4 |pages=239–47 |pmid=19896872 |pmc=2888649 |doi=10.1016/j.smrv.2009.08.001}}</ref><!--cites previous two sentences--> During sleep humans dream. In dreaming humans experience sensory images and sounds, in a sequence which the dreamer usually perceives more as an apparent participant than as an observer. Dreaming is stimulated by the ] and mostly occurs during the ]. | |||
Love most commonly refers to a feeling of strong attraction or emotional ]. It can be impersonal (the love of an object, ideal, or strong political or spiritual connection) or interpersonal (love between humans).<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Fromm E |title=The art of loving |date=2000 |publisher= Harper Perennial |location=New York |isbn=978-0-06-095828-2}}</ref> When in love ], ], ] and other chemicals stimulate the brain's ], leading to side effects such as increased ], loss of ] and ], and an ].<ref>{{cite web|date=14 February 2017|title=Love, Actually: The science behind lust, attraction, and companionship|url=https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/|access-date=25 October 2020|website=Science in the News|language=en-US|archive-date=28 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028090542/http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/love-actually-science-behind-lust-attraction-companionship/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===Consciousness and thought=== | |||
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Humans are one of the relatively few species to have sufficient self-awareness ].<ref name=Leary2005>{{cite book |author=Leary, Mark R.; Tangney, June Price |title=Handbook of Self and Identity |year=2005 |publisher=Guilford Press |location=New York, New York |isbn=978-1-59385-237-5 |pages=576–577 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=vafgWfgxUK8C&pg=PA577}}</ref> Already at 18 months, most human children are aware that the mirror image is not another person.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ulm.edu/~palmer/ConsciousnessandtheSymbolicUniverse.htm |title=Consciousness and the Symbolic Universe |author=Dr. Jack Palmer |accessdate=March 17, 2006}}</ref> | |||
== Culture == | |||
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The human brain ] the external world through the ]s, and each individual human is influenced greatly by his or her experiences, leading to ] views of ] and the passage of time. Humans are variously said to possess consciousness, ], and a mind, which correspond roughly to the mental processes of ]. These are said to possess qualities such as self-awareness, ], ], and the ability to perceive the relationship between ] and one's ]. The extent to which the mind constructs or experiences the outer world is a matter of debate, as are the definitions and validity of many of the terms used above. | |||
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Humanity's unprecedented set of intellectual skills were a key factor in the species' eventual technological advancement and concomitant domination of the biosphere.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Ord T |title=The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity |date=2020 | location = New York |publisher=Hachette Books |isbn=978-0-316-48489-3 |quote=Homo sapiens and our close relatives may have some unique physical attributes, such as our dextrous hands, upright walking and resonant voices. However, these on their own cannot explain our success. They went together with our intelligence...}}</ref> Disregarding extinct hominids, humans are the only animals known to teach generalizable information,<ref>{{cite news |vauthors=Goldman JG |title=Pay attention… time for lessons at animal school |url=https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20121005-pay-attention-its-animal-school |access-date=22 April 2020 |work=bbc.com |date=2012 |language=en |archive-date=30 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130120957/https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20121005-pay-attention-its-animal-school |url-status=live }}</ref> innately deploy recursive ] to generate and communicate complex concepts,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Winkler M, Mueller JL, Friederici AD, Männel C | title = Infant cognition includes the potentially human-unique ability to encode embedding | journal = Science Advances | volume = 4 | issue = 11 | pages = eaar8334 | date = November 2018 | pmid = 30474053 | pmc = 6248967 | doi = 10.1126/sciadv.aar8334 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2018SciA....4.8334W }}</ref> engage in the "]" required for competent tool design,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Johnson-Frey SH | title = What's so special about human tool use? | journal = Neuron | volume = 39 | issue = 2 | pages = 201–204 | date = July 2003 | pmid = 12873378 | doi = 10.1016/S0896-6273(03)00424-0 | s2cid = 18437970 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Emery NJ, Clayton NS | title = Tool use and physical cognition in birds and mammals | journal = Current Opinion in Neurobiology | volume = 19 | issue = 1 | pages = 27–33 | date = February 2009 | pmid = 19328675 | doi = 10.1016/j.conb.2009.02.003 | quote = In short, the evidence to date that animals have an understanding of folk physics is at best mixed. | s2cid = 18277620 }}</ref> or cook food in the wild.<ref>{{cite news |vauthors=Lemonick MD |date=3 June 2015 |title=Chimps Can't Cook, But Maybe They'd Like To |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/06/150602-chimp-cooking-evolution-human-brain-science/ |access-date=22 April 2020 |work=National Geographic News |archive-date=31 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131064840/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/06/150602-chimp-cooking-evolution-human-brain-science/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Teaching and learning preserves the cultural and ethnographic identity of human societies.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Vakhitova T, Gadelshina L |date=2 June 2015|title=The Role and Importance of the Study of Economic Subjects in the Implementation of the Educational Potential of Education |journal=Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences|series=The Proceedings of 6th World Conference on educational Sciences|language=en|volume=191|pages=2565–2567|doi=10.1016/j.sbspro.2015.04.690|issn=1877-0428|doi-access=free}}</ref> Other traits and behaviors that are mostly unique to humans include starting fires,<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=McKie R|date=9 October 2018|title=The Book of Humans by Adam Rutherford review – a pithy homage to our species|language=en|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/09/the-book-of-humans-adam-rutherford-review|access-date=22 April 2020|archive-date=5 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210205084949/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/oct/09/the-book-of-humans-adam-rutherford-review|url-status=live}}</ref> ] structuring<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=Nicholls H|date=29 June 2015|title=Babblers speak to the origin of language|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2015/jun/29/babblers-birds-origin-evolution-language|access-date=22 April 2020|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131120059/https://www.theguardian.com/science/animal-magic/2015/jun/29/babblers-birds-origin-evolution-language|url-status=live}}</ref> and ].<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=Dasgupta S|date=2015|title=Can any animals talk and use language like humans?|language=en|work=bbc.com|url=https://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150216-can-any-animals-talk-like-humans|access-date=22 April 2020|quote=Most animals are not vocal learners.|archive-date=2 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200502172910/http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150216-can-any-animals-talk-like-humans|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
The physical aspects of the mind and brain, and by extension of the nervous system, are studied in the field of ], the more behavioral in the field of psychology, and a sometimes loosely defined area between in the field of psychiatry, which treats mental illness and behavioral disorders. Psychology does not necessarily refer to the brain or nervous system, and can be framed purely in terms of ] or ] theories of the mind. Increasingly, however, an understanding of brain functions is being included in psychological theory and practice, particularly in areas such as ], ], and ]. | |||
=== Language === | |||
The nature of thought is central to psychology and related fields. ] studies ], the ] underlying behavior. It uses ] as a framework for understanding the mind. Perception, learning, problem solving, memory, attention, language and emotion are all well researched areas as well. Cognitive psychology is associated with a school of thought known as ], whose adherents argue for an ] model of mental function, informed by ] and ]. Techniques and models from cognitive psychology are widely applied and form the mainstay of psychological theories in many areas of both research and applied psychology. Largely focusing on the development of the human mind through the life span, ] seeks to understand how people come to perceive, understand, and act within the world and how these processes change as they age. This may focus on intellectual, cognitive, neural, social, or ]. | |||
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] of the world (and in some cases geographic groups of families). For greater detail, see '']''.]] | |||
While many species ], ] is unique to humans, a defining feature of humanity, and a ].<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Scott-Phillips TC, Blythe RA | date = 18 September 2013 | title = Why is language unique to humans? | publisher = Royal Society | url = https://royalsociety.org/news/2013/language-unique-humans/ | access-date = 24 October 2020 | language = en-gb | archive-date = 18 January 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210118210915/https://royalsociety.org/news/2013/language-unique-humans/ | url-status = live }}</ref> Unlike the limited systems of other animals, human language is open{{snd}}an infinite number of meanings can be produced by combining a limited number of symbols.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Pagel M | title = Q&A: What is human language, when did it evolve and why should we care? | journal = BMC Biology | volume = 15 | issue = 1 | page = 64 | date = July 2017 | pmid = 28738867 | pmc = 5525259 | doi = 10.1186/s12915-017-0405-3 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Fitch WT |date=4 December 2010|title=Language evolution: How to hear words long silenced |journal=New Scientist|language=en|volume=208|issue=2789|pages=ii–iii|doi=10.1016/S0262-4079(10)62961-2|bibcode=2010NewSc.208D...2F|issn=0262-4079}}</ref> Human language also has the capacity of ], using words to represent things and happenings that are not presently or locally occurring but reside in the shared imagination of interlocutors.<ref name="Revolution" /> | |||
Language differs from other forms of communication in that it is ]; the same meanings can be conveyed through different media, audibly in ], visually by ] or writing, and through tactile media such as ].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Lian A | chapter = The Modality-Independent Capacity of Language: A Milestone of Evolution|date=2016 | title = Language Evolution and Developmental Impairments|pages=229–255| veditors = Lian A |place=London|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK|language=en|doi=10.1057/978-1-137-58746-6_7|isbn=978-1-137-58746-6 }}</ref> Language is central to the communication between humans, and to the sense of identity that unites nations, cultures and ethnic groups.<ref>{{cite web|title=Culture {{!}} United Nations For Indigenous Peoples|url=https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/mandated-areas1/culture.html|access-date=24 October 2020|website=www.un.org|date=5 June 2015|archive-date=26 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201126163227/https://www.un.org/development/desa/indigenouspeoples/mandated-areas1/culture.html|url-status=live}}</ref> There are approximately six thousand different languages currently in use, including sign languages, and many thousands more that are ].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Comrie B, Polinsky M, Matthews S |title=The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World |year=1996 |publisher=Facts on File |location=New York |pages=13–15 |isbn=978-0-8160-3388-1}}</ref> | |||
Some philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness, which is experience itself, and access consciousness, which is the processing of the things in experience.<ref name="Bl">Ned Block: ''On a Confusion about a Function of Consciousness'' in: ''The Behavioral and Brain Sciences'', 1995.</ref> Phenomenal consciousness is the state of being conscious, such as when they say "I am conscious." Access consciousness is being conscious ''of'' something in relation to abstract concepts, such as when one says "I am conscious of these words." Various forms of access consciousness include awareness, self-awareness, conscience, ], ], and ]. The concept of phenomenal consciousness, in modern history, according to some, is closely related to the concept of ]. ] links sociology with psychology in their shared study of the nature and causes of human social interaction, with an emphasis on how people think towards each other and how they relate to each other. The behavior and mental processes, both human and non-human, can be described through ], ], ], and ] as well. ] is an ] that investigates how humans and human ] interact with both their natural environment and the human ]. | |||
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=== The arts === | ||
{{Main|The arts||}}Human arts can take many forms including ], ], and ]. Visual art can range from ]s and ]s to ], ], and ].<ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Mavrody S|url={{GBurl|id=tBqgBQAAQBAJ}}|title=Visual Art Forms: Traditional to Digital|publisher=Sergey's HTML5 & CSS3|year=2013|isbn=978-0-9833867-5-9|language=en|access-date=30 July 2022}}</ref> Literary arts can include ], ], and ]s. The performing arts generally involve ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web|date=2020|title=Types of Literary Arts and Their Understanding – bookfestivalscotland.com|url=https://bookfestivalscotland.com/types-of-literary-arts-and-their-understanding/|access-date=5 May 2021|website=Bookfestival Scotland|language=en-UK|archive-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505234546/http://bookfestivalscotland.com/types-of-literary-arts-and-their-understanding/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bachelor of Performing Arts|url=https://www.otago.ac.nz/performing-arts/otago056890.pdf|website=]|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=14 December 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214010758/https://www.otago.ac.nz/performing-arts/otago056890.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Humans often combine the different forms (for example, music videos).<ref>{{Cite journal| vauthors = Brown S |date=24 October 2018|title=Toward a Unification of the Arts|journal=Frontiers in Psychology|volume=9|page=1938|doi=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01938|issn=1664-1078|pmc=6207603|pmid=30405470|doi-access=free}}</ref> Other entities that have been described as having artistic qualities include ], ], and ].<ref>{{cite web|date=21 October 2019|title=Culinary arts – How cooking can be an art|url=https://www.northernartprize.org.uk/culinary-arts-cooking-can-art|access-date=5 May 2021|website=Northern Contemporary Art|language=en-US|archive-date=11 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210511102807/http://www.northernartprize.org.uk/culinary-arts-cooking-can-art|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Smuts A|date=1 January 2005|title=Are Video Games Art?|url=https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_contempaesthetics/vol3/iss1/6|journal=Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)|volume=3|issue=1|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=29 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529081114/https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/liberalarts_contempaesthetics/vol3/iss1/6/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Cameron IA, Pimlott N | title = Art of medicine | journal = Canadian Family Physician | volume = 61 | issue = 9 | pages = 739–740 | date = September 2015 | pmid = 26371092 | pmc = 4569099 }}</ref> As well as providing entertainment and transferring knowledge, the arts are also used for ].<ref>{{Cite journal| vauthors = Bird G |date=7 June 2019|title=Rethinking the role of the arts in politics: lessons from the Négritude movement |journal=International Journal of Cultural Policy|language=en|volume=25|issue=4|pages=458–470|doi=10.1080/10286632.2017.1311328|s2cid=151443044|issn=1028-6632}}</ref> ] tablet of ] in ]]] | |||
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Motivation is the driving force of desire behind all deliberate ] of humans. Motivation is based on emotion—specifically, on the search for ] (positive emotional experiences), and the avoidance of conflict. Positive and negative is defined by the individual brain state, which may be influenced by ]s: a person may be driven to ] or ] because their ] is conditioned to create a positive response to these actions. Motivation is important because it is involved in the performance of all learned responses. Within ], ] and the ] are seen to be primary motivators. Within ], motivation is often seen to be based on ]s; these may be ], ], or ]. ]s generally posit divine or ]ic influences. | |||
] is a defining characteristic of humans and there is evidence for a relationship between creativity and language.<ref name="Morriss-Kay-2010">{{cite journal | vauthors = Morriss-Kay GM | title = The evolution of human artistic creativity | journal = Journal of Anatomy | volume = 216 | issue = 2 | pages = 158–176 | date = February 2010 | pmid = 19900185 | pmc = 2815939 | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-7580.2009.01160.x }}</ref> The earliest evidence of art was shell engravings made by ''Homo erectus'' 300,000 years before modern humans evolved.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Joordens JC, d'Errico F, Wesselingh FP, Munro S, de Vos J, Wallinga J, Ankjærgaard C, Reimann T, Wijbrans JR, Kuiper KF, Mücher HJ, Coqueugniot H, Prié V, Joosten I, van Os B, Schulp AS, Panuel M, van der Haas V, Lustenhouwer W, Reijmer JJ, Roebroeks W | display-authors = 6 | title = Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving | journal = Nature | volume = 518 | issue = 7538 | pages = 228–231 | date = February 2015 | pmid = 25470048 | doi = 10.1038/nature13962 | s2cid = 4461751 | bibcode = 2015Natur.518..228J }}</ref> Art attributed to ''H. sapiens'' existed at least 75,000 years ago, with jewellery and drawings found in caves in South Africa.<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=St Fleur N|date=12 September 2018|title=Oldest Known Drawing by Human Hands Discovered in South African Cave|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/science/oldest-drawing-ever-found.html|access-date=20 September 2018|archive-date=14 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414094752/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/science/oldest-drawing-ever-found.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|vauthors=Radford T|date=16 April 2004|title=World's oldest jewellery found in cave|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/16/artsandhumanities.arts|access-date=23 September 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=12 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210212095737/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/16/artsandhumanities.arts|url-status=live}}</ref> There are various hypotheses as to why humans have ] to the arts. These include allowing them to better problem solve issues, providing a means to control or influence other humans, encouraging cooperation and contribution within a society or increasing the chance of attracting a potential mate.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Dissanayake E |title=World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches|publisher=Valiz|year=2008| veditors = Zijlmans K, van Damme W |location=Amsterdam|pages=241–263|chapter=The Arts after Darwin: Does Art have an Origin and Adaptive Function? }}</ref> The use of imagination developed through art, combined with logic may have given early humans an evolutionary advantage.<ref name="Morriss-Kay-2010" /> | |||
], or the state of being happy, is a human emotional condition. The definition of happiness is a common ] topic. Some people might define it as the best condition that a human can have—a condition of ] and physical ]. Others define it as ] from want and ]; consciousness of the ] order of things; assurance of one's place in the ] or ]. | |||
Evidence of humans engaging in musical activities predates cave art and so far music has been ].<ref name="Morley-2014">{{cite journal | vauthors = Morley I | title = A multi-disciplinary approach to the origins of music: perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, cognition and behaviour | journal = Journal of Anthropological Sciences = Rivista di Antropologia | volume = 92 | issue = 92 | pages = 147–177 | date = 2014 | pmid = 25020016 | doi = 10.4436/JASS.92008 | doi-broken-date = 2 November 2024 }}</ref> There exists a wide variety of ]s and ]s; with humans' musical abilities being related to other abilities, including complex social human behaviours.<ref name="Morley-2014" /> It has been shown that human brains respond to music by becoming synchronized with the rhythm and beat, a process called ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Trost W, Frühholz S, Schön D, Labbé C, Pichon S, Grandjean D, Vuilleumier P | title = Getting the beat: entrainment of brain activity by musical rhythm and pleasantness | journal = NeuroImage | volume = 103 | pages = 55–64 | date = December 2014 | pmid = 25224999 | doi = 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2014.09.009 | s2cid = 4727529 | url = https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02446627/file/Trost2014_UncorrectedProof.pdf }}</ref> Dance is also a form of human expression found in all cultures<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Karpati FJ, Giacosa C, Foster NE, Penhune VB, Hyde KL | title = Dance and the brain: a review | journal = Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences | volume = 1337 | issue = 1 | pages = 140–146 | date = March 2015 | pmid = 25773628 | doi = 10.1111/nyas.12632 | s2cid = 206224849 | bibcode = 2015NYASA1337..140K }}</ref> and may have evolved as a way to help early humans communicate.<ref>{{cite web|date=22 March 2010|vauthors=Chow D|title=Why Do Humans Dance?|url=https://www.livescience.com/8132-humans-dance.html|access-date=21 September 2020|website=livescience.com|language=en|archive-date=1 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201180750/https://www.livescience.com/8132-humans-dance.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Listening to music and observing dance stimulates the ] and other pleasure sensing areas of the brain.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Krakauer J|date=26 September 2008|title=Why do we like to dance{{snd}}And move to the beat?|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-dance/|access-date=21 September 2020|website=Scientific American|language=en|archive-date=28 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210228035904/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/experts-dance/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Emotion has a significant influence on, or can even be said to control, human behavior, though historically many ]s and ]s have for various reasons discouraged allowing this influence to go unchecked. Emotional experiences perceived as ], such as ], admiration, or joy, contrast with those perceived as ], like ], ], or ]. There is often a distinction made between refined emotions that are socially learned and ] oriented emotions, which are thought to be innate. Human exploration of emotions as separate from other neurological phenomena is worthy of note, particularly in cultures where emotion is considered separate from physiological state. In some cultural medical theories emotion is considered so synonymous with certain forms of physical health that no difference is thought to exist. The ] believed excessive emotion was harmful, while some ] teachers felt certain extreme emotions could yield a conceptual perfection, what is often translated as ]. | |||
Unlike speaking, reading and writing does not come naturally to humans and must be taught.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Prior KS|date=21 June 2013|title=How Reading Makes Us More Human|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/how-reading-makes-us-more-human/277079/|access-date=23 September 2020|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|archive-date=29 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210129222006/https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/06/how-reading-makes-us-more-human/277079/|url-status=live}}</ref> Still, ] has been present before the invention of words and language, with 30,000-year-old paintings on walls inside some caves portraying a series of dramatic scenes.<ref name="Puchner">{{cite web|vauthors=Puchner M|title=How stories have shaped the world|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180423-how-stories-have-shaped-the-world|access-date=23 September 2020|website=www.bbc.com|language=en|archive-date=5 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105053111/https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180423-how-stories-have-shaped-the-world|url-status=live}}</ref> One of the oldest surviving works of literature is the '']'', first engraved on ancient ]n tablets about 4,000 years ago.<ref>{{cite book| editor-first = Stephanie | editor-last=Dalley | editor-link=Stephanie Dalley | title=Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2000|isbn=978-0-19-283589-5|edition=revised|page=41}}</ref> Beyond simply passing down knowledge, the use and sharing of imaginative ] through stories might have helped develop humans' capabilities for communication and increased the likelihood of securing a mate.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Hernadi P|date=2001|title=Literature and Evolution|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/3685504|journal=SubStance|volume=30|issue=1/2|pages=55–71|doi=10.2307/3685504|jstor=3685504|issn=0049-2426|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130052249/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3685504|url-status=live}}</ref> Storytelling may also be used as a way to provide the audience with moral lessons and encourage cooperation.<ref name="Puchner" /> | |||
In modern scientific thought, certain refined emotions are considered a complex neural trait innate in a variety of ] and non-domesticated ]s. These were commonly developed in reaction to superior survival mechanisms and intelligent interaction with each other and the environment; as such, refined emotion is not in all cases as discrete and separate from natural neural function as was once assumed. However, when humans function in civilized tandem, it has been noted that uninhibited acting on extreme emotion can lead to social disorder and ]. | |||
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], the ] in the world clocking in at {{cvt|603|km/h|mph|0}} as of 2015<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=McCurry J|date=21 April 2015|title=Japan's Maglev Train Breaks World Speed Record with 600 km/h Test Run|edition=U.S.|work=The Guardian|location=New York|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/japans-maglev-train-notches-up-new-world-speed-record-in-test-run|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=18 June 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220618083538/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/japans-maglev-train-notches-up-new-world-speed-record-in-test-run|url-status=live}}</ref>]] | |||
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Stone tools were used by proto-humans at least 2.5 million years ago.<ref>{{cite journal | author1 = Clark JD | author1-link= | author2=de Heinzelin J | author2-link=Jean de Heinzelin de Braucourt | author3=Schick KD | author3-link=Kathy Schick | author4=Hart WK | author4-link= | author5=White TD | author5-link=Tim D. White | author6=WoldeGabriel G | author6-link= | author7=Walter RC | author7-link= | author8=Suwa G | author8-link=Gen Suwa | author9=Asfaw B | author9-link=Berhane Asfaw | author10=Vrba E | author10-link=Elisabeth Vrba | author11=H.-Selassie Y | author11-link=Yohannes Haile-Selassie | title = African Homo erectus: old radiometric ages and young Oldowan assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia | journal = Science | volume = 264 | issue = 5167 | pages = 1907–1910 | date = June 1994 | pmid = 8009220 | doi = 10.1126/science.8009220 | bibcode = 1994Sci...264.1907C }}</ref> The use and manufacture of tools has been put forward as the ability that defines humans more than anything else<ref name="Choi-2009">{{cite web|date=11 November 2009|vauthors=Choi CQ|title=Human Evolution: The Origin of Tool Use|url=https://www.livescience.com/7968-human-evolution-origin-tool.html|access-date=9 October 2020|website=livescience.com|language=en|archive-date=4 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201004144848/https://www.livescience.com/7968-human-evolution-origin-tool.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and has historically been seen as an important evolutionary step.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Orban GA, Caruana F | title = The neural basis of human tool use | journal = Frontiers in Psychology | volume = 5 | page = 310 | date = 2014 | pmid = 24782809 | pmc = 3988392 | doi = 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00310 | doi-access = free }}</ref> The technology became much more sophisticated about 1.8 million years ago,<ref name="Choi-2009" /> with the ] beginning around 1 million years ago.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Berna F, Goldberg P, Horwitz LK, Brink J, Holt S, Bamford M, Chazan M | title = Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 109 | issue = 20 | pages = E1215-20 | date = May 2012 | pmid = 22474385 | pmc = 3356665 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1117620109 | doi-access = free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gowlett JA | title = The discovery of fire by humans: a long and convoluted process | journal = Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences | volume = 371 | issue = 1696 | page = 20150164 | date = June 2016 | pmid = 27216521 | pmc = 4874402 | doi = 10.1098/rstb.2015.0164 }}</ref> The wheel and wheeled vehicles appeared simultaneously in several regions some time in the fourth millennium BC.<ref name="Bodnár-2018" /> The development of more complex tools and technologies allowed land to be ] and animals to be ], thus proving essential in the development of ]{{snd}}what is known as the ].<ref>{{cite web|date=2018|title=Neolithic Era Tools: Inventing a New Age|url=https://www.magellantv.com/articles/tools-of-the-neolithic-era-inventing-a-new-age|access-date=9 October 2020|website=MagellanTV|vauthors=Damiano J|archive-date=5 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105053059/https://www.magellantv.com/articles/tools-of-the-neolithic-era-inventing-a-new-age|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
For humans, sexuality has important social functions: it creates physical intimacy, bonds and hierarchies among individuals, besides ensuring biological ]. Humans are one of only two primate species, the other being the ], that frequently have sex outside of female fertile periods and that also often engage in sexual activity for no other purpose than pleasure and enjoyment, something that is very rare among other animals.{{citation needed|date=August 2012}} Sexual desire or ], is experienced as a bodily urge, often accompanied by strong emotions such as love, ] and ]. The significance of sexuality in the human species is reflected in a number of physical features among them hidden ], the evolution of external ] and ] suggesting ] competition, the absence of an ], permanent ] and the forming of ]s based on sexual attraction as a common social structure. Contrary to other primates that often advertise ] through visible signs, human females do not have a distinct or visible signs of ovulation plus they experience sexual desire outside of their fertile periods. These adaptations indicate that the meaning of sexuality in humans is similar to that found in the ], and that the complex human sexual behavior has a long ]ary history.<ref name=Haviland2010>{{cite book |author=Haviland, Wiliam A.; Prins, Harald E.L.; McBride, Bunny; Walrath, Dana |title=Cultural Anthropology: The Human Challenge |year=2010 |publisher=Wadsworth/Cengage Learning |location=Belmont, California |page=82 |isbn=978-0-495-81082-7 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=yP6TrXRpPdMC&pg=PA82}}</ref><!--cites last sentence--> | |||
China developed ], the ], ], the ] and ].<ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Deng Y, Wang P|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/671710733|title=Ancient Chinese inventions|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2011|isbn=978-0-521-18692-6|edition=|location=Cambridge, UK|pages=13–14|oclc=671710733|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730033309/https://www.worldcat.org/title/ancient-chinese-inventions/oclc/671710733|url-status=live}}</ref> The continued improvements in ] allowed ] of copper, bronze, iron and eventually ], which is used in ], ]s and many other products.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Schifman J|date=9 July 2018|title=The Entire History of Steel|url=https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a20722505/history-of-steel/|access-date=5 May 2021|website=Popular Mechanics|language=en-US|archive-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505092218/https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/infrastructure/a20722505/history-of-steel/|url-status=live}}</ref> This coincided with the ], where the invention of automated machines brought major changes to humans' lifestyles.<ref>{{cite web|author-first=Freddie |author-last=Wilkinson|date=9 January 2020|title=Industrial Revolution and Technology|url=https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/industrial-revolution-and-technology/|access-date=9 October 2020|website=National Geographic Society|language=en|archive-date=30 September 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930225816/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/industrial-revolution-and-technology/|url-status=live}}</ref> Modern technology is observed as ],<ref>{{Cite journal|author1-last=Roser |author1-first=Max |author1-link=Max Roser |author2-last=Ritchie |author2-first=Hannah|date=11 May 2013|title=Technological Progress|url=https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress|journal=Our World in Data|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=10 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210910043042/https://ourworldindata.org/technological-progress|url-status=live}}</ref> with major innovations in the 20th century including: ], ], ]s, ]s, the ], ], ]s, ]s, ], ], ], the ], ], scientific ], ]s, ], ] and the ].<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Fallows J|date=23 October 2013|title=The 50 Greatest Breakthroughs Since the Wheel|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/innovations-list/309536/|access-date=5 May 2021|website=The Atlantic|language=en|archive-date=5 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210505064701/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/11/innovations-list/309536/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Human choices in acting on sexuality are commonly influenced by cultural norms which vary widely. Restrictions are often determined by religious beliefs or social customs. The pioneering researcher ] believed that humans are born ], which means that any number of objects could be a source of pleasure. According to Freud humans then pass through five stages of ] and can fixate on any stage because of various traumas during the process. For ], another influential sex researcher, people can fall anywhere along a continuous scale of ], with only small minorities fully ] or ].<ref name="Book-Anthropology">{{cite book |author=Wikimedia Foundation |title=Anthropology |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=IZ2gef19tk4C&pg=PA87 |page=87 |date= |work=] |accessdate=10 August 2013 }}</ref><ref name="Book-2009">{{cite book |author=MobileReference |title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of North American Mammals |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=VxK4KWrGn2cC&pg=PT601 |page=601 |date=15 December 2009 |work=MobileReference |accessdate=10 August 2013 }}</ref> Recent studies of ] and ] suggest people may be born predisposed to various sexual tendencies.<ref name=Buss2003>{{cite book |author=Buss, David M. |year=2003 |title=The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating. Revised Edition |location=New York, New York |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-0-465-00802-5}}</ref><ref name=Thornhill2000>{{cite book |author=Thornhill, Randy; Palmer, Craig T. |year=2000 |title=A Natural History of Rape. Biological Bases of Sexual Coercion |publisher=MIT Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-262-70083-2}}</ref><!--find page #'s or range for these--> | |||
=== Religion and spirituality === | |||
==Culture== | |||
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] vary;<ref name="Idinopulos-1998">{{cite journal|vauthors=Idinopulos TA|date=1998|title=What Is Religion?|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24460821|journal=CrossCurrents|volume=48|issue=3|pages=366–380|jstor=24460821|issn=0011-1953|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=13 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013014742/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24460821|url-status=live}}</ref> according to one definition, a religion is a ] system concerning the ], ] or ], and practices, ], institutions and ]s associated with such belief. Some religions also have a ]. The ] and the history of the ] have become areas of active scientific investigation.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Emmons RA, Paloutzian RF | title = The psychology of religion | journal = Annual Review of Psychology | volume = 54 | issue = 1 | pages = 377–402 | year = 2003 | pmid = 12171998 | doi = 10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145024 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|vauthors=King BJ|date=29 March 2016|title=Chimpanzees: Spiritual But Not Religious?|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/chimpanzee-spirituality/475731/|access-date=8 October 2020|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|archive-date=20 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120080957/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/chimpanzee-spirituality/475731/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Ball P|title=Complex societies evolved without belief in all-powerful deity|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2015.17040|journal=Nature News|year=2015|language=en|doi=10.1038/nature.2015.17040|s2cid=183474917|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=16 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210516165439/https://www.nature.com/news/complex-societies-evolved-without-belief-in-all-powerful-deity-1.17040|url-status=live}}</ref> Credible evidence of religious behaviour dates to the ] era (45–200 ]).<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Culotta E | author-link = Barbara J. King | title = Origins. On the origin of religion | journal = Science | volume = 326 | issue = 5954 | pages = 784–787 | date = November 2009 | pmid = 19892955 | doi = 10.1126/science.326_784 | bibcode = 2009Sci...326..784C }}</ref> It may have evolved to play a role in helping enforce and encourage cooperation between humans.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Atkinson QD, Bourrat P|title=Beliefs about God, the afterlife and morality support the role of supernatural policing in human cooperation|url=https://www.academia.edu/3430406|journal=Evolution and Human Behavior|year=2011|language=en|volume=32|issue=1|pages=41–49|doi=10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2010.07.008|bibcode=2011EHumB..32...41A |issn=1090-5138|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=15 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201015031401/https://www.academia.edu/3430406/Beliefs_about_God_the_afterlife_and_morality_support_the_role_of_supernatural_policing_in_human_cooperation|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
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Humans are highly social beings and tend to live in large complex social groups. More than any other creature, humans are adept at utilizing systems of ] for self-expression, the exchange of ideas, and ], and as such have created complex ] composed of many cooperating and competing groups. Human groups range from families to ]. Social interactions between humans have established an extremely wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which together form the basis of human ]. | |||
Religion manifests in diverse forms.<ref name="Idinopulos-1998" /> Religion can include a belief in ],<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Walker GC |date=1 August 2000|title=Secular Eschatology: Beliefs about Afterlife |journal=OMEGA – Journal of Death and Dying|language=en|volume=41|issue=1|pages=5–22|doi=10.2190/Q21C-5VED-GYW6-W091|s2cid=145686249|issn=0030-2228}}</ref> the ], the nature of the ] (]) and its ] (]), and ] or ].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = McKay R, Whitehouse H | title = Religion and morality | journal = Psychological Bulletin | volume = 141 | issue = 2 | pages = 447–473 | date = March 2015 | pmid = 25528346 | pmc = 4345965 | doi = 10.1037/a0038455 }}</ref> Views on ] and ] vary substantially; traditions variously espouse ], ], ], and ] (including ] and ]).<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110698343/html|title=God or the Divine? Religious Transcendence Beyond Monism and Theism, Between Personality and Impersonality|publisher=]|date=2023|doi=10.1515/9783110698343 |isbn=978-3-11-069834-3 |editor1=Bernhard Nitsche|editor2=Marcus Schmücker}}</ref> | |||
Culture is defined here as patterns of complex symbolic behavior, i.e. all behavior that is not innate but which has to be learned through social interaction with others; such as the use of distinctive ] and ]s, including language, ritual, social organization, traditions, beliefs and technology. | |||
Although measuring religiosity is difficult,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Hall DE, Meador KG, Koenig HG | title = Measuring religiousness in health research: review and critique | journal = Journal of Religion and Health | volume = 47 | issue = 2 | pages = 134–163 | date = June 2008 | pmid = 19105008 | doi = 10.1007/s10943-008-9165-2 | pmc = 8823950 | type = Submitted manuscript | s2cid = 25349208 | url = https://zenodo.org/record/1232820 | access-date = 30 July 2022 | archive-date = 30 January 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210130130503/https://zenodo.org/record/1232820 | url-status = live }}</ref> a majority of humans profess some variety of religious or spiritual belief.<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=Sherwood H|date=27 August 2018|title=Religion: why faith is becoming more and more popular|language=en-GB|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/27/religion-why-is-faith-growing-and-what-happens-next|access-date=8 October 2020|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=1 March 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210301113948/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/aug/27/religion-why-is-faith-growing-and-what-happens-next|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015 the plurality were ] followed by ], ] and ].<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Hackett C, McClendon D|date=2017|title=Christians remain world's largest religious group, but they are declining in Europe|url=https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/05/christians-remain-worlds-largest-religious-group-but-they-are-declining-in-europe/|access-date=8 October 2020|website=Pew Research Center|language=en-US|archive-date=24 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191124021738/https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/04/05/christians-remain-worlds-largest-religious-group-but-they-are-declining-in-europe/|url-status=live}}</ref> As of 2015, about 16%, or slightly under 1.2 billion humans, were ], including those with no religious beliefs or no identity with any religion.<ref>{{cite web|date=5 April 2017|title=The Changing Global Religious Landscape|url=https://www.pewforum.org/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-religious-landscape/|access-date=8 October 2020|website=Pew Research Center's Religion & Public Life Project|language=en-US|archive-date=18 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220218030628/https://www.pewforum.org/2017/04/05/the-changing-global-religious-landscape/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===Language=== | |||
{{Main|Language|Origin of language}} | |||
The human capacity to exchange ] and ]s through speech (and recently, writing) is unparalleled in other species. Unlike the closed sign systems of other primates in which sounds are unique and mutually exclusive, human language is open – an infinite number of meanings can be produced by combining a limited number of sounds and words. Human language also has the capacity of ], using words to represent things and happenings that are not presently or locally occurring, but reside in the shared imagination of interlocutors.<ref name="Revolution"/> Basic displacement may occur in other species, but is uniquely elaborated in humans, allowing symbols and language to refer to abstract or even purely imaginary states, and underpinning the complex symbolic culture of the species. Humans are the only species able to ask ]s. Unlike ]s and ]s, who are able to answer complex questions but can not formulate and ask questions themselves, humans ask questions from a very early age.<ref>{{cite book | title = The mind of an ape | first1= David | last1=Premack |first2=Ann J. |last2= Premack |year = 1983 | publisher = ] | location = New York, London |page=29}}</ref> Human language is also unique in being a ] sign system, the same meanings can be conveyed through different media, auditively in speech, visually by gestural signs or writing and even through tactile media such as ]. The faculty of language is a defining feature of humanity, and a ]. | |||
Language is central to the communication between humans, and to the sense of identity that unites nations, cultures and ethnic groups. The invention of writing systems at least five thousand years ago allowed the preservation of language on material objects, and was a major technological advancement. The science of ] describes the structure and function of language and the relationship between languages. There are approximately six thousand different languages currently in use, including ]s, and many thousands more that are ].<ref name=Comrie1996>{{cite book |author=Comrie, Bernard; Polinsky, Maria; Matthews, Stephen |title=The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World |year=1996 |publisher=Facts on File |location=New York, New York |pages=13–15 |isbn=978-0-8160-3388-1}}</ref> | |||
=== Science and philosophy === | |||
===Gender roles=== | |||
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], a ] showing the North Polar region. China circa 700.]] | |||
The sexual division of humans into male and female has been marked culturally by a corresponding division of roles, norms, ], dress, behavior, ], ], ]s, ], and ]. ] by gender have often been believed to have arisen naturally out of a division of reproductive labor; the biological fact that women give birth led to their further cultural responsibility for nurturing and caring for children. Gender roles have varied historically, and challenges to predominant gender norms have recurred in many societies. | |||
An aspect unique to humans is their ability to ] from one generation to the next and to continually build on this information to develop tools, ]s and other advances to pass on further.<ref>{{cite web|last=Di Christina |first=Mariette |author-link=Mariette DiChristina |title=A Very Human Story: Why Our Species Is Special|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-very-human-story-why-our-species-is-special/|access-date=27 September 2020|website=Scientific American|date=September 2018 |language=en|archive-date=24 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201124160953/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-very-human-story-why-our-species-is-special/|url-status=live}}</ref> This accumulated knowledge can be tested to answer questions or make predictions about how the universe functions and has been very successful in advancing human ascendancy.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|last1=Andersen | first1=Hanne | author1-link=Hanne Andersen (philosopher) | last2=Hepburn |first2=Brian | title=Scientific Method|date=2020|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/scientific-method/|encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|veditors=Zalta EN|edition=Winter 2020|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University|access-date=8 October 2020|archive-date=23 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223174917/https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2020/entries/scientific-method/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
] has been described as the first scientist,<ref>{{Cite journal|vauthors=Lo Presti R|date=2014|title=History of science: The first scientist|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=512|issue=7514|pages=250–251|doi=10.1038/512250a|bibcode=2014Natur.512..250L|s2cid=4394696|issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}}</ref> and preceded the rise of scientific thought through the ].<ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Russo L|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/883392276|title=The forgotten revolution : how science was born in 300 BC and why it had to be reborn|date=2004|isbn=978-3-642-18904-3|page=1|publisher=Springer |oclc=883392276|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730033309/https://www.worldcat.org/title/forgotten-revolution-how-science-was-born-in-300-bc-and-why-it-had-to-be-reborn/oclc/883392276|url-status=live}}</ref> Other early advances in science came from the ] in China and during the ].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Needham |author-link=Joseph Needham|first=J |author2=Wang Ling|author2-link=Wang Ling (historian)|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/779676|title=Science and civilisation in China|year=1954|isbn=0-521-05799-X|page=111|publisher=Cambridge University Press |oclc=779676|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730033311/https://www.worldcat.org/title/science-and-civilisation-in-china/oclc/779676|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Renima-2016" /> The ], near the end of the ], led to the emergence of ].<ref>{{Cite book|vauthors=Henry J|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/615209781|title=The scientific revolution and the origins of modern science|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2008|isbn=978-1-137-07904-6|edition=3|location=Houndsmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire|chapter=Renaissance and Revolution|oclc=615209781|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730033313/https://www.worldcat.org/title/scientific-revolution-and-the-origins-of-modern-science/oclc/615209781|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===Kinship=== | |||
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All human societies organize, recognize and classify types of social relationships based on relations between parents and children (]), and relations through marriage (]). These kinds of relations are generally called kinship relations. In most societies kinship places mutual responsibilities and expectations of solidarity on the individuals that are so related, and those who recognize each other as kinsmen come to form networks through which other social institutions can be regulated. Among the many functions of kinship is the ability to form ]s, groups of people sharing a common line of descent, which can function as political units such as ]s. Another function is the way in which kinship unites families through marriage, forming ] between groups of wife-takers and wife-givers. Such alliances also often have important political and economical ramifications, and may result in the formation of political organization above the community level. Kinship relations often includes regulations for whom an individual should or shouldn't marry. All societies have rules of ], according to which marriage between certain kinds of kin relations are prohibited – such rules vary widely between cultures. Some societies also have rules of preferential marriage with certain kin relations, frequently with either ]. Rules and norms for marriage and social behavior among kinsfolk is often reflected in the systems of ] in the various languages of the world. In many societies kinship relations can also be formed through forms of co-habitation, adoption, fostering, or companionship, which also tends to create relations of enduring solidarity. | |||
A chain of events and influences led to the development of the ], a process of observation and experimentation that is used to differentiate science from ].<ref>{{cite web | vauthors = Hansson SO | veditors = Zalta EN |year=2017|title=Science and Pseudo-Science|url=https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170611061811/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pseudo-science/|archive-date=11 June 2017|access-date=3 July 2017|website=Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy|publisher=Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University}}</ref> An understanding of ] is unique to humans, although other species of animals have some ].<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Olmstead MC, Kuhlmeier VA | title = Comparative Cognition | publisher = Cambridge University Press | date = 2015 | pages = 209–210 | isbn = 978-1-107-01116-8 }}</ref> All of science can be divided into three major branches, the ] (e.g., ] and ]), which are concerned with ], the ] (e.g., engineering, medicine), which are focused on practical applications, and the empirical sciences, which are based on ] and are in turn divided into ] (e.g., ], ], ]) and ] (e.g., ], economics, sociology).<ref>{{cite web|title=Branches of Science|url=https://pmr.uchicago.edu/sites/pmr.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/BranchesofSciencePresentation.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170423062909/https://pmr.uchicago.edu/sites/pmr.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/BranchesofSciencePresentation.pdf|archive-date=23 April 2017|access-date=26 June 2017|publisher=]}}</ref> | |||
===Ethnicity=== | |||
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Humans often form ethnic groups, such groups tend to be larger than kinship networks and be organized around a common identity defined variously in terms of shared ancestry and history, shared cultural norms and language, or shared biological phenotype. Such ideologies of shared characteristics are often perpetuated in the form of powerful, compelling narratives that give legitimacy and continuity to the set of shared values. Ethnic groupings often correspond to some level of political organization such as the ], ], ] or ]. Although ethnic groups appear and disappear through history, members of ethnic groups often conceptualize their groups as having histories going back into the deep past. Such ideologies give ethnicity a powerful role in defining ] and in constructing solidarity between members of an ethno-political unit. This unifying property of ethnicity has been closely tied to the rise of the ] as the predominant form of political organization in the 19th and 20th century.<ref>J. Hutchinson & A.D. Smith (eds.), ''Oxford readers: Ethnicity'' (Oxford 1996), "Introduction"</ref><ref>Smith, Anthony D. (1999) Myths and Memories of the Nation. Oxford University Press. pp.4–7</ref><ref>Banton, Michael. (2007) Weber on Ethnic Communities: A critique. Nations and Nationalism 13 (1), 2007, 19–35.</ref><ref>Delanty,Gerard & Krishan Kumar (2006) The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism. SAGE. ISBN 1412901014 p. 171</ref><ref name="cohen">Ronald Cohen 1978 "Ethnicity: Problem and Focus in Anthropology" in ''Annual Review of Anthropology'' 7: 383 Palo Alto: Stanford University Press</ref><ref>] (1993) Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives. London: Pluto Press</ref> | |||
Philosophy is a field of study where humans seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves and the world in which they live.<ref>{{cite web |title=What is Philosophy? |work=Department of Philosophy |publisher=Florida State University |url=https://philosophy.fsu.edu/undergraduate-study/why-philosophy/What-is-Philosophy |access-date=8 October 2020 |archive-date=23 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223102725/https://philosophy.fsu.edu/undergraduate-study/why-philosophy/What-is-Philosophy |url-status=live }}</ref> Philosophical inquiry has been a major feature in the development of humans' intellectual history.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Philosophy |encyclopedia=Definition, Systems, Fields, Schools, & Biographies |publisher=Encyclopedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophy |access-date=8 October 2020 |archive-date=23 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210223162559/https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophy |url-status=live }}</ref> It has been described as the "no man's land" between definitive scientific knowledge and dogmatic religious teachings.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Kaufmann F, Russell B|date=1947|title=A History of Western Philosophy and its Connection with Political and Social Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2102800|journal=Philosophy and Phenomenological Research|volume=7|issue=3|page=461|doi=10.2307/2102800|jstor=2102800|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=31 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220331234443/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2102800|url-status=live}}</ref> Major fields of philosophy include ], ], ], and ] (which includes ] and ]).<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Hassan NR, Mingers J, Stahl B |date=4 May 2018|title=Philosophy and information systems: where are we and where should we go? |journal=European Journal of Information Systems | volume=27|issue=3|pages=263–277|doi=10.1080/0960085X.2018.1470776|s2cid=64796132|issn=0960-085X|doi-access=free|hdl=2086/16128|hdl-access=free}}</ref> | |||
===Society, government, and politics=== | |||
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] complex in ], which houses one of the largest political organizations in the world]] | |||
Society is the system of organizations and institutions arising from interaction between humans. A state is an organized political community occupying a definite territory, having an organized government, and possessing internal and external ]. Recognition of the state's claim to independence by other states, enabling it to enter into international agreements, is often important to the establishment of its statehood. The "state" can also be defined in terms of domestic conditions, specifically, as conceptualized by ], "a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monopoly of the 'legitimate' use of physical force within a given territory."<ref>, by ], 1918. Retrieved March 17, 2006.</ref> | |||
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Government can be defined as the political means of creating and enforcing ]s; typically via a ] ]. Politics is the process by which decisions are made within groups; this process often involves conflict as well as compromise. Although the term is generally applied to behavior within governments, politics is also observed in all human group interactions, including corporate, academic, and religious institutions. Many different political systems exist, as do many different ways of understanding them, and many definitions overlap. Examples of governments include ], ], ], ], and ], the last of which is considered dominant today. All of these issues have a direct relationship with economics. | |||
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Society is the system of organizations and institutions arising from interaction between humans. Humans are highly social and tend to live in large complex social groups. They can be divided into different groups according to their income, wealth, ], ] and other factors. The structure of ] and the degree of ] differs, especially between modern and traditional societies.<ref>{{cite web |title=Social Stratification |url=https://web.unitn.it/files/download/8481/srs_schizzerotto_social_stratification_2_as.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180320150018/https://web.unitn.it/files/download/8481/srs_schizzerotto_social_stratification_2_as.pdf |archive-date=20 March 2018 |access-date=3 July 2017 |publisher=] |vauthors=Schizzerotto A}}</ref> Human groups range from the size of ] to nations. The first form of human social organization is thought to have resembled ] ].<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Fukuyama F |title=The origins of political order : from prehuman times to the French Revolution|date=2012|publisher=Farrar, Straus and Giroux|isbn=978-0-374-53322-9|page=53|oclc=1082411117}}</ref> | |||
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Human societies typically exhibit ] and ]s that distinguish between ] and ] characteristics and prescribe the range of acceptable behaviours and attitudes for their members based on their ].<ref>{{Cite book |chapter=Social Role Theory of Sex Differences and Similarities : A Current Appraisal |date=2000 |chapter-url=https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781410605245-12/social-role-theory-sex-differences-similarities-current-appraisal |title=The Developmental Social Psychology of Gender |pages=137–188 |publisher=Psychology Press |doi=10.4324/9781410605245-12 |isbn=978-1-4106-0524-5 |access-date=10 June 2022 |archive-date=30 April 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430212712/https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781410605245-12/social-role-theory-sex-differences-similarities-current-appraisal |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |year=2003 |title=Gender Roles and Society |encyclopedia=Human Ecology: An Encyclopedia of Children, Families, Communities, and Environments |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa barbara, CA |url=https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/soc_facpub/1/ |last=Blackstone |first=Amy |series=Sociology School Faculty Scholarship |page=335 |editor-last=Miller |editor-first=Julia R. |editor2-last=Lerner |editor2-first=Richard M. |editor3-last=Schiamberg |editor3-first=Lawrence B. |access-date=30 July 2022 |archive-date=16 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516131905/https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/soc_facpub/1/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The most common categorisation is a ] of ] and ].<ref>{{cite book|last=Nadal|first=Kevin L.|title=The SAGE Encyclopedia of Psychology and Gender|year=2017|isbn=978-1483384276|page=401|publisher=SAGE Publications |quote=Most cultures currently construct their societies based on the understanding of gender binary{{snd}}the two gender categorizations (male and female). Such societies divide their population based on biological sex assigned to individuals at birth to begin the process of gender socialization.}}</ref> Some societies recognize a ],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herdt |first=Gilbert |url={{GBurl|id=8nf8DwAAQBAJ}} |title=Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History |publisher=Princeton University Press |year=2020 |isbn=978-1-942130-52-9 |location=Princeton, NJ |pages=21–83 |language=en |chapter=Third Sexes and Third Genders |access-date=30 July 2022 }}</ref> or less commonly a fourth or fifth.<ref>{{cite book|last=Trumbach|first=Randolph|year=1994|chapter=London's Sapphists: From Three Sexes to Four Genders in the Making of Modern Culture|title=Third Sex, Third Gender: Beyond Sexual Dimorphism in Culture and History|editor-last=Herdt|editor-first=Gilbert|pages=111–136|location=New York|publisher=Zone (MIT)|isbn=978-0-942299-82-3}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Graham|first=Sharyn|url=http://www.insideindonesia.org/weekly-articles/sulawesis-fifth-gender|title=Sulawesi's fifth gender|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141126200244/http://www.insideindonesia.org/weekly-articles/sulawesis-fifth-gender|archive-date=26 November 2014|website=]|date=April–June 2001}}</ref> In some other societies, ] is used as an umbrella term for a range of gender identities that are not solely male or female.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Richards |first1=Christina |last2=Bouman |first2=Walter Pierre |last3=Seal |first3=Leighton |last4=Barker |first4=Meg John |author4-link=Meg-John Barker |last5=Nieder |first5=Timo O. |last6=T'Sjoen |first6=Guy |date=2016 |title=Non-binary or genderqueer genders |url=https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/7279758 |url-status=live |journal=International Review of Psychiatry |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=95–102 |doi=10.3109/09540261.2015.1106446 |pmid=26753630 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190626224658/https://biblio.ugent.be/publication/7279758 |archive-date=26 June 2019 |access-date=9 June 2019 |hdl-access=free |s2cid=29985722 |hdl=1854/LU-7279758}}</ref> | |||
Trade is the voluntary exchange of goods and services, and is a form of economics. A mechanism that allows trade is called a ]. The original form of trade was ], the direct exchange of goods and services. Modern traders instead generally negotiate through a medium of exchange, such as money. As a result, buying can be separated from selling, or ]. The invention of money (and later ], paper money and non-physical money) greatly simplified and promoted trade. Because of specialization and ], most people concentrate on a small aspect of manufacturing or service, trading their labor for products. Trade exists between regions because different regions have an ] or ] in the production of some tradable commodity, or because different regions' size allows for the benefits of ]. | |||
Gender roles are often associated with a division of ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ], with men enjoying more rights and privileges than women in most societies, both today and in the past.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Ananthaswamy |first1=Anil|last2=Douglas|first2=Kate |title=The origins of sexism: How men came to rule 12,000 years ago |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23831740-400-the-origins-of-sexism-how-men-came-to-rule-12000-years-ago/ |access-date=7 March 2023 |website=New Scientist |language=en-US}}</ref> As a ],<ref>{{Cite web |title=What do we mean by "sex" and "gender"? |url=https://apps.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130022356/https://apps.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/ |archive-date=30 January 2017 |access-date=26 November 2015 |publisher=]}}</ref> gender roles are not fixed and vary historically within a society. Challenges to predominant gender norms have recurred in many societies.<ref>{{cite book |url={{GBurl|id=lc-YBRQkldAC|p=143}} |title=Essential Concepts for Healthy Living |vauthors=Alters S, Schiff W |publisher=] |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-7637-5641-3 |page=143 |access-date=3 January 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author-link1=Nicole Fortin |vauthors=Fortin N |year=2005 |title=Gender Role Attitudes and the Labour Market Outcomes of Women Across OECD Countries |journal=Oxford Review of Economic Policy |volume=21 |issue=3 |pages=416–438 |doi=10.1093/oxrep/gri024}}</ref> Little is known about gender roles in the earliest human societies. ]s probably had a range of gender roles similar to that of modern cultures from at least the ], while the ]s were less sexually dimorphic and there is evidence that the behavioural difference between males and females was minimal.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dobres |first=Marcia-Anne |author-link=Marcia-Anne Dobres |chapter=Gender in the Earliest Human Societies |date=27 November 2020 |chapter-url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119535812.ch11 |title=A Companion to Global Gender History |pages=183–204 |editor-last=Meade |editor-first=Teresa A. |editor-link=Teresa Meade |edition=1 |publisher=Wiley |language=en |doi=10.1002/9781119535812.ch11 |isbn=978-1-119-53580-5 |access-date=10 June 2022 |editor2-last=Wiesner-Hanks |editor2-first=Merry E. |editor2-link=Merry Wiesner-Hanks |s2cid=229399965 |archive-date=10 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610113514/https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9781119535812.ch11 |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Economics is a ] which studies the production, distribution, trade, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on measurable variables, and is broadly divided into two main branches: ], which deals with individual agents, such as households and businesses, and macroeconomics, which considers the economy as a whole, in which case it considers ] and ] for money, ] and ]. Aspects receiving particular attention in economics are ], production, distribution, trade, and ]. Economic logic is increasingly applied to any problem that involves choice under scarcity or determining economic ]. | |||
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=== Kinship === | ||
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All human societies organize, recognize and classify types of social relationships based on relations between parents, children and other descendants (]), and relations through ] (]). There is also a third type applied to ]s or ] (]). These culturally defined relationships are referred to as kinship. In many societies, it is one of the most important social organizing principles and plays a role in transmitting status and ].<ref>{{cite web|title=The Nature of Kinship: Overview|url=https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/kinship/kinship_1.htm|access-date=24 October 2020|website=www2.palomar.edu|archive-date=3 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203230431/https://www2.palomar.edu/anthro/kinship/kinship_1.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> All societies have rules of ], according to which marriage between certain kinds of kin relations is prohibited, and some also have rules of preferential marriage with certain kin relations.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Itao K, Kaneko K | title = Evolution of kinship structures driven by marriage tie and competition | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 117 | issue = 5 | pages = 2378–2384 | date = February 2020 | pmid = 31964846 | pmc = 7007516 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1917716117 | bibcode = 2020PNAS..117.2378I | doi-access = free }}</ref> | |||
] attacking a ] ship in the 13th century. Warfare has been an integral aspect of all human societies since before the rise of civilization.]] | |||
War is a state of organized armed conflict between states or non-state groups. War is characterized by the use of lethal ] between combatants and/or upon ] to achieve military goals through force. Lesser, often spontaneous conflicts, such as brawls, ], ], and ], are not considered to be warfare. ]s can be ] or an organized and armed revolution which denotes a state of war. During the 20th century, it is estimated that between 167 and 188 million people died as a result of war.<ref>Ferguson, Niall. "The Next War of the World." Foreign Affairs, Sep/Oct 2006</ref> A common definition defines war as a series of ]s between at least two opposing sides involving a dispute over ], territory, ], ], or other issues. A war between internal elements of a state is a ]. | |||
Pair bonding is a ubiquitous feature of human sexual relationships, whether it is manifested as serial monogamy, ], or ].<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Schacht |first1=Ryan |last2=Kramer |first2=Karen L. |date=17 July 2019 |title=Are We Monogamous? A Review of the Evolution of Pair-Bonding in Humans and Its Contemporary Variation Cross-Culturally |journal=] |volume=7 |doi=10.3389/fevo.2019.00230 |doi-access=free |issn=2296-701X }}</ref> Genetic evidence indicates that humans were predominantly ] for most of their existence as a species, but that this began to shift during the Neolithic, when ] started becoming widespread concomitantly with the transition from nomadic to sedentary societies.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Dupanloup |first1=Isabelle |last2=Pereira |first2=Luisa |last3=Bertorelle |first3=Giorgio |last4=Calafell |first4=Francesc |last5=Prata |first5=Maria João |last6=Amorim |first6=Antonio |last7=Barbujani |first7=Guido |date=1 July 2003 |title=A Recent Shift from Polygyny to Monogamy in Humans Is Suggested by the Analysis of Worldwide Y-Chromosome Diversity |url=http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s00239-003-2458-x |journal=] |volume=57 |issue=1 |pages=85–97 |doi=10.1007/s00239-003-2458-x |pmid=12962309 |bibcode=2003JMolE..57...85D |issn=0022-2844 |access-date=13 July 2024 |via=Springer Link}}</ref> Anatomical evidence in the form of second-to-fourth digit ratios, a biomarker for prenatal androgen effects, likewise indicates modern humans were polygynous during the Pleistocene.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Nelson |first1=Emma |last2=Rolian |first2=Campbell |last3=Cashmore |first3=Lisa |last4=Shultz |first4=Susanne |date=3 November 2010 |title=Digit ratios predict polygyny in early apes, Ardipithecus, Neanderthals and early modern humans but not in Australopithecus |journal=] |language=en |volume=278 |issue=1711 |pages=1556–1563 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2010.1740 |issn=0962-8452 |pmc=3081742 |pmid=21047863 }}</ref> | |||
There have been a wide variety of ] ] throughout the history of war, ranging from ] to ] to ] and ]. Techniques include ], the use of ], ], and, more recently, ]. Military intelligence has often played a key role in determining victory and defeat. Propaganda, which often includes information, slanted opinion and disinformation, plays a key role in maintaining unity within a warring group, and/or sowing discord among opponents. In modern warfare, ]s and ]s are used to control the land, ] the sea, and ] the sky. These fields have also overlapped in the forms of marines, paratroopers, naval aircraft carriers, and surface-to-air missiles, among others. ] in ] have made outer space a factor in warfare as well as it is used for detailed intelligence gathering, however no known aggressive actions have been ]. | |||
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=== Ethnicity === | ||
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Human ethnic groups are a social category that ] together as a group based on shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. These can be a common set of traditions, ], ], ], ], ], ], ], or social treatment within their residing area.<ref>{{cite book|first=Kanchan |last=Chandra |author-link=Kanchan Chandra|url=https://worldcat.org/oclc/829678440|title=Constructivist theories of ethnic politics|date=2012|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-989315-7|pages=69–70|oclc=829678440|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220730033538/https://www.worldcat.org/title/constructivist-theories-of-ethnic-politics/oclc/829678440|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| vauthors = People J, Bailey G |title=Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology|publisher=Wadsworth Cengage learning|year=2010|edition=9th|page=389|quote=In essence, an ethnic group is a named social category of people based on perceptions of shared social experience or one's ancestors' experiences. Members of the ethnic group see themselves as sharing cultural traditions and history that distinguish them from other groups. Ethnic group identity has a strong psychological or emotional component that divides the people of the world into opposing categories of ‘us’ and ‘them.’ In contrast to social stratification, which divides and unifies people along a series of horizontal axes based on socioeconomic factors, ethnic identities divide and unify people along a series of vertical axes. Thus, ethnic groups, at least theoretically, cut across socioeconomic class differences, drawing members from all strata of the population.}}</ref> Ethnicity is separate from the concept of ], which is based on physical characteristics, although both are ].<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Blackmore E|date=22 February 2019|title=Race and ethnicity: How are they different?|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics/reference/race-ethnicity/|access-date=24 October 2020|website=Culture|language=en|archive-date=22 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201022013516/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/topics/reference/race-ethnicity/|url-status=dead}}</ref> Assigning ethnicity to a certain population is complicated, as even within common ethnic designations there can be a diverse range of subgroups, and the makeup of these ethnic groups can change over time at both the collective and individual level.<ref name="REGWG2005" /> Also, there is no generally accepted definition of what constitutes an ethnic group.<ref>{{cite journal|vauthors=Chandra K|title=What is Ethnic Identity and Does It Matter?|date=2006|journal=Annual Review of Political Science|language=en|volume=9|issue=1|pages=397–424|doi=10.1146/annurev.polisci.9.062404.170715|issn=1094-2939|doi-access=free}}</ref> Ethnic groupings can play a powerful role in the ] and solidarity of ethnopolitical units. This has been closely tied to the rise of the ] as the predominant form of political organization in the 19th and 20th centuries.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Smith AD | date = 1999 | title = Myths and Memories of the Nation. | publisher = Oxford University Press | pages = 4–7 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Banton M |year=2007|title=Max Weber on 'ethnic communities': a critique|journal=Nations and Nationalism|volume=13|issue=1|pages=19–35|doi=10.1111/j.1469-8129.2007.00271.x}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Delanty G, Kumar K |title=The SAGE Handbook of Nations and Nationalism |date=2006 |publisher=Sage |location=London |isbn=978-1-4129-0101-7 | page = 171 }}</ref> | |||
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Stone tools were used by proto-humans at least 2.5 million years ago.<ref name=Clark1994>{{cite journal |author=Clark, J.D.; de Heinzelin, J.; Schick, K.D.; ''et al''. |title=African ''Homo erectus'': old radiometric ages and young Oldowan assemblages in the Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia |journal=Science |year=1994 |volume=264 |issue=5167 |pages=1907–1910 |pmid=8009220 |doi=10.1126/science.8009220}}</ref> The ] began around 1.5 million years ago. Since then, humans have made major advances, developing complex technology to create tools to aid their lives and allowing for other advancements in culture. Major leaps in technology include the discovery of ] – what is known as the ], and the invention of automated machines in the ]. | |||
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] attempts to tell the story of past or lost cultures in part by close examination of the ] they produced. Early humans left ], ], and ] that are particular to various regions and times. | |||
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] (left) in New York City, which houses one of the world's largest political organizations]] | |||
As farming populations gathered in larger and denser communities, interactions between these different groups increased. This led to the development of governance within and between the communities.<ref>{{cite book| vauthors = Christian D |url=https://archive.org/details/mapsoftimeintrod00chri|title=Maps of Time|date=2004|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-0-520-24476-4|url-access=registration}}</ref> Humans have evolved the ability to change affiliation with various social groups relatively easily, including previously strong political alliances, if doing so is seen as providing personal advantages.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Cronk L, Leech BL|date=20 September 2017|title=How Did Humans Get So Good at Politics?|url=https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/human-evolution-politics/|access-date=24 October 2020|website=SAPIENS|language=en-US|archive-date=7 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807003627/https://www.sapiens.org/evolution/human-evolution-politics/|url-status=live}}</ref> This ] allows individual humans to change their political ideologies, with those with higher flexibility less likely to support authoritarian and nationalistic stances.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Zmigrod L, Rentfrow PJ, Robbins TW | title = Cognitive underpinnings of nationalistic ideology in the context of Brexit | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 115 | issue = 19 | pages = E4532–E4540 | date = May 2018 | pmid = 29674447 | pmc = 5948950 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1708960115 | bibcode = 2018PNAS..115E4532Z | s2cid = 4993139 | doi-access = free }}</ref> | |||
Governments create ]s and ] that affect the citizens that they govern. There have been ] throughout human history, each having various means of obtaining power and the ability to exert diverse controls on the population.<ref>{{cite web|date=14 February 2011|vauthors=Melina R|title=What Are the Different Types of Governments?|url=https://www.livescience.com/33027-what-are-the-different-types-of-governments.html|access-date=24 October 2020|website=livescience.com|language=en|archive-date=1 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201203345/https://www.livescience.com/33027-what-are-the-different-types-of-governments.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Approximately 47% of humans live in some form of a ], 17% in a ], and 37% in an ].<ref>{{cite web|work=]|title=Democracy Index 2021: less than half the world lives in a democracy|date=10 February 2022|publisher=]|url=https://www.eiu.com/n/democracy-index-2021-less-than-half-the-world-lives-in-a-democracy/}}</ref> Many countries belong to ]s and ]; the largest of these is the ], with ].<ref>{{cite web|author=Jeannie Evers|date=23 December 2012|title=international organization|url=https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/international-organization/|access-date=24 October 2020|website=National Geographic Society|language=en|archive-date=27 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427195211/http://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/international-organization/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
====Body culture==== | |||
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Throughout history, humans have altered their appearance by wearing clothing<ref>{{cite journal | author = Balter M | year = 2009 | title = Clothes Make the (Hu) Man | url = | journal = Science | volume = 325 | issue = 5946| page = 1329 | doi = 10.1126/science.325_1329a | pmid = 19745126 }}</ref><ref>Kvavadze E, Bar-Yosef O, Belfer-Cohen A, Boaretto E,Jakeli N, Matskevich Z, Meshveliani T. (2009).30,000-Year-Old Wild Flax Fibers" ''Science'' 325(5946) 1359. {{DOI|10.1126/science.1175404}} PMID 19745144 </ref> and ]s, by trimming or ] hair or by means of body modifications. | |||
=== Trade and economics === | |||
Body modification is the deliberate altering of the ] for any non-medical reason, such as aesthetics, sexual enhancement, a rite of passage, religious reasons, to display group membership or affiliation, to create ], shock value, or self-expression.<ref name="DeMello2007"/> In its most broad definition it includes ], socially acceptable decoration (e.g. common ] in many societies), and religious rites of passage (e.g. ] in a number of cultures).<ref name="DeMello2007">{{cite book|author=Margo DeMello|title=Encyclopedia of Body Adornment|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=s0122BsqrZwC&pg=PR17|accessdate=6 April 2012|year=2007|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0-313-33695-9|pages=17–}}</ref> | |||
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Trade, the voluntary exchange of goods and services, is seen as a characteristic that differentiates humans from other animals and has been cited as a practice that gave ''Homo sapiens'' a major advantage over other hominids.<ref>{{cite journal| vauthors = Horan RD, Bulte E, Shogren JF |date=1 September 2005|title=How trade saved humanity from biological exclusion: an economic theory of Neanderthal extinction |journal=Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization|language=en|volume=58|issue=1|pages=1–29|doi=10.1016/j.jebo.2004.03.009|issn=0167-2681}}</ref> Evidence suggests early ''H. sapiens'' made use of long-distance trade routes to exchange goods and ideas, leading to ]s and providing additional food sources when hunting was sparse, while such trade networks did not exist for the now extinct Neanderthals.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Gibbons J|date=11 August 2015|title=Why did Neanderthals go extinct?|url=https://insider.si.edu/2015/08/why-did-neanderthals-go-extinct/|access-date=11 October 2020|website=Smithsonian Insider|language=en-US|archive-date=12 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112021755/https://insider.si.edu/2015/08/why-did-neanderthals-go-extinct/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=University of Wyoming|date=24 March 2005|title=Did Use of Free Trade Cause Neanderthal Extinction?|url=https://www.newswise.com/articles/did-use-of-free-trade-cause-neanderthal-extinction|access-date=11 October 2020|website=www.newswise.com|language=en|archive-date=1 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210201191705/https://www.newswise.com/articles/did-use-of-free-trade-cause-neanderthal-extinction|url-status=live}}</ref> Early trade likely involved materials for creating tools like ].<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Polianskaya A|date=15 March 2018|title=Humans may have been trading with each for as long as 300,000 years|url=https://inews.co.uk/news/science/early-humans-trading-300000-years-135655|access-date=11 October 2020|website=inews.co.uk|language=en|archive-date=23 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210123015959/https://inews.co.uk/news/science/early-humans-trading-300000-years-135655|url-status=live}}</ref> The first truly international trade routes were around the ] through the Roman and medieval periods.<ref>{{cite news|vauthors=Henriques M|title=How spices changed the ancient world|url=https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/the-flavours-that-shaped-the-world/|access-date=11 October 2020|website=www.bbc.com|language=en|archive-date=25 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125075428/https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/made-on-earth/the-flavours-that-shaped-the-world/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
Early human ] were more likely to be based around ] instead of a ]ing system.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Strauss IE|date=26 February 2016|title=The Myth of the Barter Economy|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/|access-date=11 October 2020|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|archive-date=15 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210215153209/https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/02/barter-society-myth/471051/|url-status=live}}</ref> Early ] consisted of ]; the oldest being in the form of cattle and the most widely used being ].<ref name="www.pbs.org-1996">{{cite web|title=The History of Money|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/history-money/|access-date=11 October 2020|website=www.pbs.org|date=26 October 1996 |language=en-US|archive-date=29 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201129121807/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/history-money/|url-status=live}}</ref> Money has since evolved into governmental issued ], ] and ].<ref name="www.pbs.org-1996" /> Human study of economics is a ] that looks at how societies distribute scarce resources among different people.<ref>{{cite web|title=Why do we need economists and the study of economics?|url=https://www.frbsf.org/education/publications/doctor-econ/2000/july/economics-economists/|access-date=23 October 2020|website=Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco|date=July 2000 |language=en|archive-date=12 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112023941/https://www.frbsf.org/education/publications/doctor-econ/2000/july/economics-economists/|url-status=live}}</ref> There are massive ] in the division of ] among humans; the eight richest humans are worth the same monetary value as the poorest half of all the human population.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Sheskin M|title=The inequality delusion: Why we've got the wealth gap all wrong|url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23731710-300-the-inequality-delusion-why-weve-got-the-wealth-gap-all-wrong/|access-date=24 October 2020|website=New Scientist|language=en-US|archive-date=3 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210203042931/https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23731710-300-the-inequality-delusion-why-weve-got-the-wealth-gap-all-wrong/|url-status=live}}</ref> | |||
===Religion and spirituality=== | |||
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Religion is generally defined as a ] system concerning the ], ] or ], and practices, ], institutions and ]s associated with such belief. Some religions also have a ]. The ] and the history of the ] have recently become areas of active scientific investigation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://evolution.binghamton.edu/religion/|title=Evolutionary Religious Studies: A New Field of Scientific Inquiry}}</ref><ref name=Boyer2008>{{cite journal |author=Boyer, Pascal |title=Being human: Religion: bound to believe? |journal=Nature |volume=455 |issue=7216 |pages=1038–1039 |year=2008 |pmid=18948934 |doi=10.1038/4551038a}}</ref><ref name=Emmons2003>{{Cite journal |author=Emmons, Robert A.; Paloutzian, Raymond F. |title=The psychology of religion |journal=Annual Review of Psychology |year=2003 |pmid=12171998 |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages= 377–402 |doi=10.1146/annurev.psych.54.101601.145024}}</ref> However, in the course of its ], religion has taken on many forms that vary by culture and individual perspective. Some of the chief questions and issues religions are concerned with include life after death (commonly involving belief in an ]), the ], the nature of the ] (]) and its ] (]), and what is ] or immoral. A common source for answers to these questions are beliefs in ] ] beings such as ] or a singular ], although not all religions are ]. Spirituality, belief or involvement in matters of the ] or ], is one of the many different approaches humans take in trying to answer fundamental questions about humankind's place in the universe, the ], and the ideal way to live one's life. Though these topics have also been addressed by philosophy, and to some extent by science, spirituality is unique in that it focuses on ] or supernatural concepts such as ] and God. | |||
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Humans commit violence on other humans at a rate comparable to other primates, but have an increased preference for killing adults, ] being more common among other primates.<ref>{{cite web|vauthors=Yong E|date=28 September 2016|title=Humans: Unusually Murderous Mammals, Typically Murderous Primates|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/humans-are-unusually-violent-mammals-but-averagely-violent-primates/501935/|access-date=7 May 2021|website=The Atlantic|language=en|archive-date=7 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210507121602/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/09/humans-are-unusually-violent-mammals-but-averagely-violent-primates/501935/|url-status=live}}</ref> Phylogenetic analysis predicts that 2% of early ''H. sapiens'' would be ]ed, rising to 12% during the medieval period, before dropping to below 2% in modern times.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Gómez JM, Verdú M, González-Megías A, Méndez M | title = The phylogenetic roots of human lethal violence | journal = Nature | volume = 538 | issue = 7624 | pages = 233–237 | date = October 2016 | pmid = 27680701 | doi = 10.1038/nature19758 | bibcode = 2016Natur.538..233G | s2cid = 4454927 }}</ref> There is great variation in violence between human populations, with rates of homicide about 0.01% in societies that have ] and strong cultural attitudes against violence.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Pagel M | title = Animal behaviour: Lethal violence deep in the human lineage | journal = Nature | volume = 538 | issue = 7624 | pages = 180–181 | date = October 2016 | pmid = 27680700 | doi = 10.1038/nature19474 | bibcode = 2016Natur.538..180P | s2cid = 4459560 | url = https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/67361/1/Pagel%20N%26V%20on%20Gomez%20et%20al.pdf | access-date = 30 July 2022 | archive-date = 20 May 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220520203015/https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/67361/1/Pagel%20N%26V%20on%20Gomez%20et%20al.pdf | url-status = live }}</ref> | |||
The willingness of humans to kill other members of their species en masse through organized conflict (i.e., ]) has long been the subject of debate. One school of thought holds that war evolved as a means to eliminate competitors, and has always been an innate human characteristic. Another suggests that war is a relatively recent phenomenon and has appeared due to changing social conditions.<ref name="Ferguson-2018">{{cite web|vauthors=Ferguson RB|date=1 September 2018|title=War Is Not Part of Human Nature|url=https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/war-is-not-part-of-human-nature/|website=Scientific American|access-date=30 July 2022|archive-date=30 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210130124940/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/war-is-not-part-of-human-nature/|url-status=live}}</ref> While not settled, current evidence indicates warlike predispositions only became common about 10,000 years ago, and in many places much more recently than that.<ref name="Ferguson-2018" /> War has had a high cost on human life; it is estimated that during the 20th century, between 167 million and 188 million people died as a result of war.<ref>{{cite magazine | vauthors = Ferguson N | title = The Next War of the World | magazine = Foreign Affairs | date = September–October 2006 | url = https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2006-09-01/next-war-world | access-date = 30 July 2022 | archive-date = 25 April 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220425051203/https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2006-09-01/next-war-world | url-status = live }}</ref> War casualty data is less reliable for pre-medieval times, especially global figures. But compared with any period over the past 600 years, the last ~80 years (post 1946), has seen a very significant drop in global military and civilian death rates due to armed conflict.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8832311/war-casualties-600-years|title=600 years of war and peace, in one amazing chart|first=Zack|last=Beauchamp|date=23 June 2015|website=Vox}}</ref> | |||
Although the exact level of religiosity can be hard to measure,<ref name=Hall2008>{{cite journal |author=Hall, Daniel E.; Meador, Keith G.; Koenig, Harold G. |title=Measuring religiousness in health research: review and critique |journal=Journal of Religion and Health |volume=47 |issue=2 |pages=134–163 |year=2008 |pmid=19105008 |doi=10.1007/s10943-008-9165-2}}</ref> a majority of humans professes some variety of religious or spiritual belief, although many (in some countries a majority) are ]. This includes humans who have no religious beliefs or do not identify with any religion. ] is a philosophy which seeks to include all of humanity and all issues common to humans; it is usually non-religious. Most religions and spiritual beliefs are clearly distinct from science on both a philosophical and methodological level; the two are not generally considered mutually exclusive and a majority of humans hold a mix of both scientific and religious views. The distinction between philosophy and religion, on the other hand, is at times less clear, and the two are linked in such fields as the ] and ]. | |||
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Philosophy is a discipline or field of study involving the investigation, analysis, and development of ideas at a general, abstract, or fundamental level. It is the discipline searching for a general understanding of reality, reasoning and values. Major fields of philosophy include ], ], ], ], and ] (which includes ] and ]). Philosophy covers a very wide range of approaches, and is used to refer to a ], to a perspective on an issue, or to the positions argued for by a particular philosopher or school of philosophy. | |||
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Another unique aspect of human culture and thought is the development of complex methods for acquiring knowledge through observation and quantification. The ] has been developed to acquire knowledge of the physical world and the rules, processes and principles of which it consists, and combined with mathematics it enables the prediction of complex patterns of causality and consequence. Some other animals are able to recognize differences in small quantities {{citation needed|date=October 2013}}, but humans are able to understand and recognize much larger, even abstract, quantities, and to recognize and understand algorithmic patterns which enables infinite ] routines and algebra, something that is not found in any other species. | |||
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] of a woman writing ] by ]]] Art is a ], and humans have been producing artistic works at least since the days of ]. As a form of ] expression, art may be defined by the pursuit of ] and the usage of ]s of liberation and exploration (i.e. ], ], and ]) to mediate its boundaries. This distinction may be applied to objects or performances, current or historical, and its prestige extends to those who made, found, exhibit, or own them. In the modern use of the word, art is commonly understood to be the process or result of making material works that, from concept to creation, adhere to the "creative impulse" of human beings. Art is distinguished from other works by being in large part unprompted by necessity, by biological drive, or by any undisciplined pursuit of recreation. | |||
Music is a natural ] phenomenon based on the three distinct and interrelated organization structures of rhythm, harmony, and melody. Listening to music is perhaps the most common and universal form of ], while learning and understanding it are popular ]s.{{citation needed|date=June 2013}} There are a wide variety of ]s and ]s. ], the body of written—and possibly oral—works, especially creative ones, includes prose, poetry and drama, both fiction and ]. Literature includes such genres as ], legend, myth, ballad, and folklore. | |||
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Species of hominid in the genus Homo Several terms redirect here. For other uses, see Human (disambiguation), Mankind (disambiguation), Humankind (disambiguation), Human Race (disambiguation), Human Being (disambiguation), and Homo sapiens (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Person.
Human Temporal range: 0.3–0 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Chibanian – present | |
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Male (left) and female adult humans, Thailand, 2007 | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Mammalia |
Order: | Primates |
Suborder: | Haplorhini |
Infraorder: | Simiiformes |
Family: | Hominidae |
Subfamily: | Homininae |
Tribe: | Hominini |
Genus: | Homo |
Species: | H. sapiens |
Binomial name | |
Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 | |
Homo sapiens population density (2020) |
Humans (Homo sapiens, meaning 'thinking man' or 'wise man') or modern humans (sometimes Homo sapiens sapiens) are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus Homo and the broader australopithecine subtribe. They are great apes characterized by their hairlessness, bipedalism, and high intelligence. Humans have large brains, enabling more advanced cognitive skills that enable them to thrive and adapt in varied environments, develop highly complex tools, and form complex social structures and civilizations. Humans are highly social, with individual humans tending to belong to a multi-layered network of cooperating, distinct, or even competing social groups – from families and peer groups to corporations and political states. As such, social interactions between humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, languages, and traditions (collectively termed institutions), each of which bolsters human society. Humans are also highly curious, with the desire to understand and influence phenomena having motivated humanity's development of science, technology, philosophy, mythology, religion, and other frameworks of knowledge; humans also study themselves through such domains as anthropology, social science, history, psychology, and medicine. There are estimated to be more than eight billion living humans.
Although some scientists equate the term "humans" with all members of the genus Homo, in common usage it generally refers to Homo sapiens, the only extant member. All other members of the genus Homo, which are now extinct, are known as archaic humans, and the term "modern human" is used to distinguish Homo sapiens from archaic humans. Anatomically modern humans emerged around 300,000 years ago in Africa, evolving from Homo heidelbergensis or a similar species. Migrating out of Africa, they gradually replaced and interbred with local populations of archaic humans. Multiple hypotheses for the extinction of archaic human species such as Neanderthals include competition, violence, interbreeding with Homo sapiens, or inability to adapt to climate change. Humans began exhibiting behavioral modernity about 160,000–60,000 years ago. For most of their history, humans were nomadic hunter-gatherers. The Neolithic Revolution, which began in Southwest Asia around 13,000 years ago (and separately in a few other places), saw the emergence of agriculture and permanent human settlement; in turn, this led to the development of civilization and kickstarted a period of continuous (and ongoing) population growth and rapid technological change. Since then, a number of civilizations have risen and fallen, while a number of sociocultural and technological developments have resulted in significant changes to the human lifestyle.
Genes and the environment influence human biological variation in visible characteristics, physiology, disease susceptibility, mental abilities, body size, and life span. Though humans vary in many traits, humans are among the least genetically diverse species. Any two humans are at least 99.5% genetically similar. Humans are sexually dimorphic: generally, males have greater body strength and females have a higher body fat percentage. At puberty, humans develop secondary sex characteristics. Females are capable of pregnancy, usually between puberty, at around 12 years old, and menopause, around the age of 50. As omnivorous creatures, they are capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material, and have used fire and other forms of heat to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus. Humans can survive for up to eight weeks without food and several days without water. Humans are generally diurnal, sleeping on average seven to nine hours per day. Childbirth is dangerous, with a high risk of complications and death. Often, both the mother and the father provide care for their children, who are helpless at birth.
Humans have a large, highly developed, and complex prefrontal cortex, the region of the brain associated with higher cognition. Humans are highly intelligent and capable of episodic memory; they have flexible facial expressions, self-awareness, and a theory of mind. The human mind is capable of introspection, private thought, imagination, volition, and forming views on existence. This has allowed great technological advancements and complex tool development through complex reasoning and the transmission of knowledge to subsequent generations through language.
Humans have had a dramatic effect on the environment. They are apex predators, being rarely preyed upon by other species. Human population growth, industrialization, land development, overconsumption and combustion of fossil fuels have led to environmental destruction and pollution that significantly contributes to the ongoing mass extinction of other forms of life. Within the last century, humans have explored challenging environments such as Antarctica, the deep sea, and outer space. Human habitation within these hostile environments is restrictive and expensive, typically limited in duration, and restricted to scientific, military, or industrial expeditions. Humans have visited the Moon and made their presence known on other celestial bodies through human-made robotic spacecraft. Since the early 20th century, there has been continuous human presence in Antarctica through research stations and, since 2000, in space through habitation on the International Space Station.
Etymology and definition
Further information: Names for the human species and Human taxonomyAll modern humans are classified into the species Homo sapiens, coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 1735 work Systema Naturae. The generic name Homo is a learned 18th-century derivation from Latin homō, which refers to humans of either sex. The word human can refer to all members of the Homo genus. The name Homo sapiens means 'wise man' or 'knowledgeable man'. There is disagreement if certain extinct members of the genus, namely Neanderthals, should be included as a separate species of humans or as a subspecies of H. sapiens.
Human is a loanword of Middle English from Old French humain, ultimately from Latin hūmānus, the adjectival form of homō ('man' – in the sense of humanity). The native English term man can refer to the species generally (a synonym for humanity) as well as to human males. It may also refer to individuals of either sex.
Despite the fact that the word animal is colloquially used as an antonym for human, and contrary to a common biological misconception, humans are animals. The word person is often used interchangeably with human, but philosophical debate exists as to whether personhood applies to all humans or all sentient beings, and further if a human can lose personhood (such as by going into a persistent vegetative state).
Evolution
Main article: Human evolutionHumans are apes (superfamily Hominoidea). The lineage of apes that eventually gave rise to humans first split from gibbons (family Hylobatidae) and orangutans (genus Pongo), then gorillas (genus Gorilla), and finally, chimpanzees and bonobos (genus Pan). The last split, between the human and chimpanzee–bonobo lineages, took place around 8–4 million years ago, in the late Miocene epoch. During this split, chromosome 2 was formed from the joining of two other chromosomes, leaving humans with only 23 pairs of chromosomes, compared to 24 for the other apes. Following their split with chimpanzees and bonobos, the hominins diversified into many species and at least two distinct genera. All but one of these lineages – representing the genus Homo and its sole extant species Homo sapiens – are now extinct.
The genus Homo evolved from Australopithecus. Though fossils from the transition are scarce, the earliest members of Homo share several key traits with Australopithecus. The earliest record of Homo is the 2.8 million-year-old specimen LD 350-1 from Ethiopia, and the earliest named species are Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis which evolved by 2.3 million years ago. H. erectus (the African variant is sometimes called H. ergaster) evolved 2 million years ago and was the first archaic human species to leave Africa and disperse across Eurasia. H. erectus also was the first to evolve a characteristically human body plan. Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago from a species commonly designated as either H. heidelbergensis or H. rhodesiensis, the descendants of H. erectus that remained in Africa. H. sapiens migrated out of the continent, gradually replacing or interbreeding with local populations of archaic humans. Humans began exhibiting behavioral modernity about 160,000–70,000 years ago, and possibly earlier. This development was likely selected amidst natural climate change in Middle to Late Pleistocene Africa.
The "out of Africa" migration took place in at least two waves, the first around 130,000 to 100,000 years ago, the second (Southern Dispersal) around 70,000 to 50,000 years ago. H. sapiens proceeded to colonize all the continents and larger islands, arriving in Eurasia 125,000 years ago, Australia around 65,000 years ago, the Americas around 15,000 years ago, and remote islands such as Hawaii, Easter Island, Madagascar, and New Zealand in the years 300 to 1280 CE.
Human evolution was not a simple linear or branched progression but involved interbreeding between related species. Genomic research has shown that hybridization between substantially diverged lineages was common in human evolution. DNA evidence suggests that several genes of Neanderthal origin are present among all non sub-Saharan-African populations, and Neanderthals and other hominins, such as Denisovans, may have contributed up to 6% of their genome to present-day non sub-Saharan-African humans.
Human evolution is characterized by a number of morphological, developmental, physiological, and behavioral changes that have taken place since the split between the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees. The most significant of these adaptations are hairlessness, obligate bipedalism, increased brain size and decreased sexual dimorphism (neoteny). The relationship between all these changes is the subject of ongoing debate.
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History
Main article: Human historyPrehistory
Main article: PrehistoryUntil about 12,000 years ago, all humans lived as hunter-gatherers. The Neolithic Revolution (the invention of agriculture) first took place in Southwest Asia and spread through large parts of the Old World over the following millennia. It also occurred independently in Mesoamerica (about 6,000 years ago), China, Papua New Guinea, and the Sahel and West Savanna regions of Africa.
Access to food surplus led to the formation of permanent human settlements, the domestication of animals and the use of metal tools for the first time in history. Agriculture and sedentary lifestyle led to the emergence of early civilizations.
Ancient
Main article: Ancient historyAn urban revolution took place in the 4th millennium BCE with the development of city-states, particularly Sumerian cities located in Mesopotamia. It was in these cities that the earliest known form of writing, cuneiform script, appeared around 3000 BCE. Other major civilizations to develop around this time were Ancient Egypt and the Indus Valley Civilisation. They eventually traded with each other and invented technology such as wheels, plows and sails. Emerging by 3000 BCE, the Caral–Supe civilization is the oldest complex civilization in the Americas. Astronomy and mathematics were also developed and the Great Pyramid of Giza was built. There is evidence of a severe drought lasting about a hundred years that may have caused the decline of these civilizations, with new ones appearing in the aftermath. Babylonians came to dominate Mesopotamia while others, such as the Poverty Point culture, Minoans and the Shang dynasty, rose to prominence in new areas. The Late Bronze Age collapse around 1200 BCE resulted in the disappearance of a number of civilizations and the beginning of the Greek Dark Ages. During this period iron started replacing bronze, leading to the Iron Age.
In the 5th century BCE, history started being recorded as a discipline, which provided a much clearer picture of life at the time. Between the 8th and 6th century BCE, Europe entered the classical antiquity age, a period when ancient Greece and ancient Rome flourished. Around this time other civilizations also came to prominence. The Maya civilization started to build cities and create complex calendars. In Africa, the Kingdom of Aksum overtook the declining Kingdom of Kush and facilitated trade between India and the Mediterranean. In West Asia, the Achaemenid Empire's system of centralized governance became the precursor to many later empires, while the Gupta Empire in India and the Han dynasty in China have been described as golden ages in their respective regions.
Medieval
Main article: Post-classical historyFollowing the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476, Europe entered the Middle Ages. During this period, Christianity and the Church would provide centralized authority and education. In the Middle East, Islam became the prominent religion and expanded into North Africa. It led to an Islamic Golden Age, inspiring achievements in architecture, the revival of old advances in science and technology, and the formation of a distinct way of life. The Christian and Islamic worlds would eventually clash, with the Kingdom of England, the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire declaring a series of holy wars to regain control of the Holy Land from Muslims.
In the Americas, between 200 and 900 CE Mesoamerica was in its Classic Period, while further north, complex Mississippian societies would arise starting around 800 CE. The Mongol Empire would conquer much of Eurasia in the 13th and 14th centuries. Over this same time period, the Mali Empire in Africa grew to be the largest empire on the continent, stretching from Senegambia to Ivory Coast. Oceania would see the rise of the Tuʻi Tonga Empire which expanded across many islands in the South Pacific. By the late 15th century, the Aztecs and Inca had become the dominant power in Mesoamerica and the Andes, respectively.
Modern
Main articles: Early modern period and Late modern periodThe early modern period in Europe and the Near East (c. 1450–1800) began with the final defeat of the Byzantine Empire, and the rise of the Ottoman Empire. Meanwhile, Japan entered the Edo period, the Qing dynasty rose in China and the Mughal Empire ruled much of India. Europe underwent the Renaissance, starting in the 15th century, and the Age of Discovery began with the exploring and colonizing of new regions. This included the colonization of the Americas and the Columbian Exchange. This expansion led to the Atlantic slave trade and the genocide of Native American peoples. This period also marked the Scientific Revolution, with great advances in mathematics, mechanics, astronomy and physiology.
The late modern period (1800–present) saw the Technological and Industrial Revolution bring such discoveries as imaging technology, major innovations in transport and energy development. Influenced by Enlightenment ideals, the Americas and Europe experienced a period of political revolutions known as the Age of Revolution. The Napoleonic Wars raged through Europe in the early 1800s, Spain lost most of its colonies in the New World, while Europeans continued expansion into Africa – where European control went from 10% to almost 90% in less than 50 years – and Oceania. In the 19th century, the British Empire expanded to become the world's largest empire.
A tenuous balance of power among European nations collapsed in 1914 with the outbreak of the First World War, one of the deadliest conflicts in history. In the 1930s, a worldwide economic crisis led to the rise of authoritarian regimes and a Second World War, involving almost all of the world's countries. The war's destruction led to the collapse of most global empires, leading to widespread decolonization.
Following the conclusion of the Second World War in 1945, the United States and the USSR emerged as the remaining global superpowers. This led to a Cold War that saw a struggle for global influence, including a nuclear arms race and a space race, ending in the collapse of the Soviet Union. The current Information Age, spurred by the development of the Internet and artificial intelligence systems, sees the world becoming increasingly globalized and interconnected.
Habitat and population
Further information: Human geography and DemographyWorld population | 8.1 billion |
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Population density | 16/km (41/sq mi) by total area 55/km (141/sq mi) by land area |
Largest cities | Tokyo, Delhi, Shanghai, São Paulo, Mexico City, Cairo, Mumbai, Beijing, Dhaka, Osaka |
Early human settlements were dependent on proximity to water and – depending on the lifestyle – other natural resources used for subsistence, such as populations of animal prey for hunting and arable land for growing crops and grazing livestock. Modern humans, however, have a great capacity for altering their habitats by means of technology, irrigation, urban planning, construction, deforestation and desertification. Human settlements continue to be vulnerable to natural disasters, especially those placed in hazardous locations and with low quality of construction. Grouping and deliberate habitat alteration is often done with the goals of providing protection, accumulating comforts or material wealth, expanding the available food, improving aesthetics, increasing knowledge or enhancing the exchange of resources.
Humans are one of the most adaptable species, despite having a low or narrow tolerance for many of the earth's extreme environments. Currently the species is present in all eight biogeographical realms, although their presence in the Antarctic realm is very limited to research stations and annually there is a population decline in the winter months of this realm. Humans established nation-states in the other seven realms, such as South Africa, India, Russia, Australia, Fiji, United States and Brazil (each located in a different biogeographical realm).
By using advanced tools and clothing, humans have been able to extend their tolerance to a wide variety of temperatures, humidities, and altitudes. As a result, humans are a cosmopolitan species found in almost all regions of the world, including tropical rainforest, arid desert, extremely cold arctic regions, and heavily polluted cities; in comparison, most other species are confined to a few geographical areas by their limited adaptability. The human population is not, however, uniformly distributed on the Earth's surface, because the population density varies from one region to another, and large stretches of surface are almost completely uninhabited, like Antarctica and vast swathes of the ocean. Most humans (61%) live in Asia; the remainder live in the Americas (14%), Africa (14%), Europe (11%), and Oceania (0.5%).
Estimates of the population at the time agriculture emerged in around 10,000 BC have ranged between 1 million and 15 million. Around 50–60 million people lived in the combined eastern and western Roman Empire in the 4th century AD. Bubonic plagues, first recorded in the 6th century AD, reduced the population by 50%, with the Black Death killing 75–200 million people in Eurasia and North Africa alone. Human population is believed to have reached one billion in 1800. It has since then increased exponentially, reaching two billion in 1930 and three billion in 1960, four in 1975, five in 1987 and six billion in 1999. It passed seven billion in 2011 and passed eight billion in November 2022. It took over two million years of human prehistory and history for the human population to reach one billion and only 207 years more to grow to 7 billion. The combined biomass of the carbon of all the humans on Earth in 2018 was estimated at 60 million tons, about 10 times larger than that of all non-domesticated mammals.
In 2018, 4.2 billion humans (55%) lived in urban areas, up from 751 million in 1950. The most urbanized regions are Northern America (82%), Latin America (81%), Europe (74%) and Oceania (68%), with Africa and Asia having nearly 90% of the world's 3.4 billion rural population. Problems for humans living in cities include various forms of pollution and crime, especially in inner city and suburban slums.
Biology
Anatomy and physiology
Main article: Human bodyMost aspects of human physiology are closely homologous to corresponding aspects of animal physiology. The dental formula of humans is: 2.1.2.32.1.2.3. Humans have proportionately shorter palates and much smaller teeth than other primates. They are the only primates to have short, relatively flush canine teeth. Humans have characteristically crowded teeth, with gaps from lost teeth usually closing up quickly in young individuals. Humans are gradually losing their third molars, with some individuals having them congenitally absent.
Humans share with chimpanzees a vestigial tail, appendix, flexible shoulder joints, grasping fingers and opposable thumbs. Humans also have a more barrel-shaped chests in contrast to the funnel shape of other apes, an adaptation for bipedal respiration. Apart from bipedalism and brain size, humans differ from chimpanzees mostly in smelling, hearing and digesting proteins. While humans have a density of hair follicles comparable to other apes, it is predominantly vellus hair, most of which is so short and wispy as to be practically invisible. Humans have about 2 million sweat glands spread over their entire bodies, many more than chimpanzees, whose sweat glands are scarce and are mainly located on the palm of the hand and on the soles of the feet.
It is estimated that the worldwide average height for an adult human male is about 171 cm (5 ft 7 in), while the worldwide average height for adult human females is about 159 cm (5 ft 3 in). Shrinkage of stature may begin in middle age in some individuals but tends to be typical in the extremely aged. Throughout history, human populations have universally become taller, probably as a consequence of better nutrition, healthcare, and living conditions. The average mass of an adult human is 59 kg (130 lb) for females and 77 kg (170 lb) for males. Like many other conditions, body weight and body type are influenced by both genetic susceptibility and environment and varies greatly among individuals.
Humans have a far faster and more accurate throw than other animals. Humans are also among the best long-distance runners in the animal kingdom, but slower over short distances. Humans' thinner body hair and more productive sweat glands help avoid heat exhaustion while running for long distances. Compared to other apes, the human heart produces greater stroke volume and cardiac output and the aorta is proportionately larger.
Genetics
Main article: Human geneticsLike most animals, humans are a diploid and eukaryotic species. Each somatic cell has two sets of 23 chromosomes, each set received from one parent; gametes have only one set of chromosomes, which is a mixture of the two parental sets. Among the 23 pairs of chromosomes, there are 22 pairs of autosomes and one pair of sex chromosomes. Like other mammals, humans have an XY sex-determination system, so that females have the sex chromosomes XX and males have XY. Genes and environment influence human biological variation in visible characteristics, physiology, disease susceptibility and mental abilities. The exact influence of genes and environment on certain traits is not well understood.
While no humans – not even monozygotic twins – are genetically identical, two humans on average will have a genetic similarity of 99.5%-99.9%. This makes them more homogeneous than other great apes, including chimpanzees. This small variation in human DNA compared to many other species suggests a population bottleneck during the Late Pleistocene (around 100,000 years ago), in which the human population was reduced to a small number of breeding pairs. The forces of natural selection have continued to operate on human populations, with evidence that certain regions of the genome display directional selection in the past 15,000 years.
The human genome was first sequenced in 2001 and by 2020 hundreds of thousands of genomes had been sequenced. In 2012 the International HapMap Project had compared the genomes of 1,184 individuals from 11 populations and identified 1.6 million single nucleotide polymorphisms. African populations harbor the highest number of private genetic variants. While many of the common variants found in populations outside of Africa are also found on the African continent, there are still large numbers that are private to these regions, especially Oceania and the Americas. By 2010 estimates, humans have approximately 22,000 genes. By comparing mitochondrial DNA, which is inherited only from the mother, geneticists have concluded that the last female common ancestor whose genetic marker is found in all modern humans, the so-called mitochondrial Eve, must have lived around 90,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Life cycle
See also: Childbirth and Life expectancyMost human reproduction takes place by internal fertilization via sexual intercourse, but can also occur through assisted reproductive technology procedures. The average gestation period is 38 weeks, but a normal pregnancy can vary by up to 37 days. Embryonic development in the human covers the first eight weeks of development; at the beginning of the ninth week the embryo is termed a fetus. Humans are able to induce early labor or perform a caesarean section if the child needs to be born earlier for medical reasons. In developed countries, infants are typically 3–4 kg (7–9 lb) in weight and 47–53 cm (19–21 in) in height at birth. However, low birth weight is common in developing countries, and contributes to the high levels of infant mortality in these regions.
Compared with other species, human childbirth is dangerous, with a much higher risk of complications and death. The size of the fetus's head is more closely matched to the pelvis than in other primates. The reason for this is not completely understood, but it contributes to a painful labor that can last 24 hours or more. The chances of a successful labor increased significantly during the 20th century in wealthier countries with the advent of new medical technologies. In contrast, pregnancy and natural childbirth remain hazardous ordeals in developing regions of the world, with maternal death rates approximately 100 times greater than in developed countries.
Both the mother and the father provide care for human offspring, in contrast to other primates, where parental care is mostly done by the mother. Helpless at birth, humans continue to grow for some years, typically reaching sexual maturity at 15 to 17 years of age. The human life span has been split into various stages ranging from three to twelve. Common stages include infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. The lengths of these stages have varied across cultures and time periods but is typified by an unusually rapid growth spurt during adolescence. Human females undergo menopause and become infertile at around the age of 50. It has been proposed that menopause increases a woman's overall reproductive success by allowing her to invest more time and resources in her existing offspring, and in turn their children (the grandmother hypothesis), rather than by continuing to bear children into old age.
The life span of an individual depends on two major factors, genetics and lifestyle choices. For various reasons, including biological/genetic causes, women live on average about four years longer than men. As of 2018, the global average life expectancy at birth of a girl is estimated to be 74.9 years compared to 70.4 for a boy. There are significant geographical variations in human life expectancy, mostly correlated with economic development – for example, life expectancy at birth in Hong Kong is 87.6 years for girls and 81.8 for boys, while in the Central African Republic, it is 55.0 years for girls and 50.6 for boys. The developed world is generally aging, with the median age around 40 years. In the developing world, the median age is between 15 and 20 years. While one in five Europeans is 60 years of age or older, only one in twenty Africans is 60 years of age or older. In 2012, the United Nations estimated that there were 316,600 living centenarians (humans of age 100 or older) worldwide.
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Diet
Main article: Human nutritionHumans are omnivorous, capable of consuming a wide variety of plant and animal material. Human groups have adopted a range of diets from purely vegan to primarily carnivorous. In some cases, dietary restrictions in humans can lead to deficiency diseases; however, stable human groups have adapted to many dietary patterns through both genetic specialization and cultural conventions to use nutritionally balanced food sources. The human diet is prominently reflected in human culture and has led to the development of food science.
Until the development of agriculture, Homo sapiens employed a hunter-gatherer method as their sole means of food collection. This involved combining stationary food sources (such as fruits, grains, tubers, and mushrooms, insect larvae and aquatic mollusks) with wild game, which must be hunted and captured in order to be consumed. It has been proposed that humans have used fire to prepare and cook food since the time of Homo erectus. Human domestication of wild plants began about 11,700 years ago, leading to the development of agriculture, a gradual process called the Neolithic Revolution. These dietary changes may also have altered human biology; the spread of dairy farming provided a new and rich source of food, leading to the evolution of the ability to digest lactose in some adults. The types of food consumed, and how they are prepared, have varied widely by time, location, and culture.
In general, humans can survive for up to eight weeks without food, depending on stored body fat. Survival without water is usually limited to three or four days, with a maximum of one week. In 2020 it is estimated 9 million humans die every year from causes directly or indirectly related to starvation. Childhood malnutrition is also common and contributes to the global burden of disease. However, global food distribution is not even, and obesity among some human populations has increased rapidly, leading to health complications and increased mortality in some developed and a few developing countries. Worldwide, over one billion people are obese, while in the United States 35% of people are obese, leading to this being described as an "obesity epidemic." Obesity is caused by consuming more calories than are expended, so excessive weight gain is usually caused by an energy-dense diet.
Biological variation
Main article: Human genetic variationThere is biological variation in the human species – with traits such as blood type, genetic diseases, cranial features, facial features, organ systems, eye color, hair color and texture, height and build, and skin color varying across the globe. The typical height of an adult human is between 1.4 and 1.9 m (4 ft 7 in and 6 ft 3 in), although this varies significantly depending on sex, ethnic origin, and family bloodlines. Body size is partly determined by genes and is also significantly influenced by environmental factors such as diet, exercise, and sleep patterns.
There is evidence that populations have adapted genetically to various external factors. The genes that allow adult humans to digest lactose are present in high frequencies in populations that have long histories of cattle domestication and are more dependent on cow milk. Sickle cell anemia, which may provide increased resistance to malaria, is frequent in populations where malaria is endemic. Populations that have for a very long time inhabited specific climates tend to have developed specific phenotypes that are beneficial for those environments – short stature and stocky build in cold regions, tall and lanky in hot regions, and with high lung capacities or other adaptations at high altitudes. Some populations have evolved highly unique adaptations to very specific environmental conditions, such as those advantageous to ocean-dwelling lifestyles and freediving in the Bajau.
Human hair ranges in color from red to blond to brown to black, which is the most frequent. Hair color depends on the amount of melanin, with concentrations fading with increased age, leading to grey or even white hair. Skin color can range from darkest brown to lightest peach, or even nearly white or colorless in cases of albinism. It tends to vary clinally and generally correlates with the level of ultraviolet radiation in a particular geographic area, with darker skin mostly around the equator. Skin darkening may have evolved as protection against ultraviolet solar radiation. Light skin pigmentation protects against depletion of vitamin D, which requires sunlight to make. Human skin also has a capacity to darken (tan) in response to exposure to ultraviolet radiation.
There is relatively little variation between human geographical populations, and most of the variation that occurs is at the individual level. Much of human variation is continuous, often with no clear points of demarcation. Genetic data shows that no matter how population groups are defined, two people from the same population group are almost as different from each other as two people from any two different population groups. Dark-skinned populations that are found in Africa, Australia, and South Asia are not closely related to each other.
Genetic research has demonstrated that human populations native to the African continent are the most genetically diverse and genetic diversity decreases with migratory distance from Africa, possibly the result of bottlenecks during human migration. These non-African populations acquired new genetic inputs from local admixture with archaic populations and have much greater variation from Neanderthals and Denisovans than is found in Africa, though Neanderthal admixture into African populations may be underestimated. Furthermore, recent studies have found that populations in sub-Saharan Africa, and particularly West Africa, have ancestral genetic variation which predates modern humans and has been lost in most non-African populations. Some of this ancestry is thought to originate from admixture with an unknown archaic hominin that diverged before the split of Neanderthals and modern humans.
Humans are a gonochoric species, meaning they are divided into male and female sexes. The greatest degree of genetic variation exists between males and females. While the nucleotide genetic variation of individuals of the same sex across global populations is no greater than 0.1%–0.5%, the genetic difference between males and females is between 1% and 2%. Males on average are 15% heavier and 15 cm (6 in) taller than females. On average, men have about 40–50% more upper-body strength and 20–30% more lower-body strength than women at the same weight, due to higher amounts of muscle and larger muscle fibers. Women generally have a higher body fat percentage than men. Women have lighter skin than men of the same population; this has been explained by a higher need for vitamin D in females during pregnancy and lactation. As there are chromosomal differences between females and males, some X and Y chromosome-related conditions and disorders only affect either men or women. After allowing for body weight and volume, the male voice is usually an octave deeper than the female voice. Women have a longer life span in almost every population around the world. There are intersex conditions in the human population, however these are rare.
Psychology
Main article: PsychologyThe human brain, the focal point of the central nervous system in humans, controls the peripheral nervous system. In addition to controlling "lower", involuntary, or primarily autonomic activities such as respiration and digestion, it is also the locus of "higher" order functioning such as thought, reasoning, and abstraction. These cognitive processes constitute the mind, and, along with their behavioral consequences, are studied in the field of psychology.
Humans have a larger and more developed prefrontal cortex than other primates, the region of the brain associated with higher cognition. This has led humans to proclaim themselves to be more intelligent than any other known species. Objectively defining intelligence is difficult, with other animals adapting senses and excelling in areas that humans are unable to.
There are some traits that, although not strictly unique, do set humans apart from other animals. Humans may be the only animals who have episodic memory and who can engage in "mental time travel". Even compared with other social animals, humans have an unusually high degree of flexibility in their facial expressions. Humans are the only animals known to cry emotional tears. Humans are one of the few animals able to self-recognize in mirror tests and there is also debate over to what extent humans are the only animals with a theory of mind.
Sleep and dreaming
Main articles: Sleep and DreamHumans are generally diurnal. The average sleep requirement is between seven and nine hours per day for an adult and nine to ten hours per day for a child; elderly people usually sleep for six to seven hours. Having less sleep than this is common among humans, even though sleep deprivation can have negative health effects. A sustained restriction of adult sleep to four hours per day has been shown to correlate with changes in physiology and mental state, including reduced memory, fatigue, aggression, and bodily discomfort.
During sleep humans dream, where they experience sensory images and sounds. Dreaming is stimulated by the pons and mostly occurs during the REM phase of sleep. The length of a dream can vary, from a few seconds up to 30 minutes. Humans have three to five dreams per night, and some may have up to seven. Dreamers are more likely to remember the dream if awakened during the REM phase. The events in dreams are generally outside the control of the dreamer, with the exception of lucid dreaming, where the dreamer is self-aware. Dreams can at times make a creative thought occur or give a sense of inspiration.
Consciousness and thought
Main articles: Consciousness and CognitionHuman consciousness, at its simplest, is sentience or awareness of internal or external existence. Despite centuries of analyses, definitions, explanations and debates by philosophers and scientists, consciousness remains puzzling and controversial, being "at once the most familiar and most mysterious aspect of our lives". The only widely agreed notion about the topic is the intuition that it exists. Opinions differ about what exactly needs to be studied and explained as consciousness. Some philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness, which is sensory experience itself, and access consciousness, which can be used for reasoning or directly controlling actions. It is sometimes synonymous with 'the mind', and at other times, an aspect of it. Historically it is associated with introspection, private thought, imagination and volition. It now often includes some kind of experience, cognition, feeling or perception. It may be 'awareness', or 'awareness of awareness', or self-awareness. There might be different levels or orders of consciousness, or different kinds of consciousness, or just one kind with different features.
The process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses is known as cognition. The human brain perceives the external world through the senses, and each individual human is influenced greatly by his or her experiences, leading to subjective views of existence and the passage of time. The nature of thought is central to psychology and related fields. Cognitive psychology studies cognition, the mental processes underlying behavior. Largely focusing on the development of the human mind through the life span, developmental psychology seeks to understand how people come to perceive, understand, and act within the world and how these processes change as they age. This may focus on intellectual, cognitive, neural, social, or moral development. Psychologists have developed intelligence tests and the concept of intelligence quotient in order to assess the relative intelligence of human beings and study its distribution among population.
Motivation and emotion
Main articles: Motivation and EmotionHuman motivation is not yet wholly understood. From a psychological perspective, Maslow's hierarchy of needs is a well-established theory that can be defined as the process of satisfying certain needs in ascending order of complexity. From a more general, philosophical perspective, human motivation can be defined as a commitment to, or withdrawal from, various goals requiring the application of human ability. Furthermore, incentive and preference are both factors, as are any perceived links between incentives and preferences. Volition may also be involved, in which case willpower is also a factor. Ideally, both motivation and volition ensure the selection, striving for, and realization of goals in an optimal manner, a function beginning in childhood and continuing throughout a lifetime in a process known as socialization.
Emotions are biological states associated with the nervous system brought on by neurophysiological changes variously associated with thoughts, feelings, behavioral responses, and a degree of pleasure or displeasure. They are often intertwined with mood, temperament, personality, disposition, creativity, and motivation. Emotion has a significant influence on human behavior and their ability to learn. Acting on extreme or uncontrolled emotions can lead to social disorder and crime, with studies showing criminals may have a lower emotional intelligence than normal.
Emotional experiences perceived as pleasant, such as joy, interest or contentment, contrast with those perceived as unpleasant, like anxiety, sadness, anger, and despair. Happiness, or the state of being happy, is a human emotional condition. The definition of happiness is a common philosophical topic. Some define it as experiencing the feeling of positive emotional affects, while avoiding the negative ones. Others see it as an appraisal of life satisfaction or quality of life. Recent research suggests that being happy might involve experiencing some negative emotions when humans feel they are warranted.
Sexuality and love
Main articles: Human sexuality and LoveFor humans, sexuality involves biological, erotic, physical, emotional, social, or spiritual feelings and behaviors. Because it is a broad term, which has varied with historical contexts over time, it lacks a precise definition. The biological and physical aspects of sexuality largely concern the human reproductive functions, including the human sexual response cycle. Sexuality also affects and is affected by cultural, political, legal, philosophical, moral, ethical, and religious aspects of life. Sexual desire, or libido, is a basic mental state present at the beginning of sexual behavior. Studies show that men desire sex more than women and masturbate more often.
Humans can fall anywhere along a continuous scale of sexual orientation, although most humans are heterosexual. While homosexual behavior occurs in some other animals, only humans and domestic sheep have so far been found to exhibit exclusive preference for same-sex relationships. Most evidence supports nonsocial, biological causes of sexual orientation, as cultures that are very tolerant of homosexuality do not have significantly higher rates of it. Research in neuroscience and genetics suggests that other aspects of human sexuality are biologically influenced as well.
Love most commonly refers to a feeling of strong attraction or emotional attachment. It can be impersonal (the love of an object, ideal, or strong political or spiritual connection) or interpersonal (love between humans). When in love dopamine, norepinephrine, serotonin and other chemicals stimulate the brain's pleasure center, leading to side effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement.
Culture
Main articles: Culture and Cultural universalMost widely spoken languages | English, Mandarin Chinese, Hindi, Spanish, Standard Arabic, Bengali, French, Russian, Portuguese, Urdu |
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Most practiced religions | Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, folk religions, Sikhism, Judaism, unaffiliated |
Humanity's unprecedented set of intellectual skills were a key factor in the species' eventual technological advancement and concomitant domination of the biosphere. Disregarding extinct hominids, humans are the only animals known to teach generalizable information, innately deploy recursive embedding to generate and communicate complex concepts, engage in the "folk physics" required for competent tool design, or cook food in the wild. Teaching and learning preserves the cultural and ethnographic identity of human societies. Other traits and behaviors that are mostly unique to humans include starting fires, phoneme structuring and vocal learning.
Language
Main article: LanguageWhile many species communicate, language is unique to humans, a defining feature of humanity, and a cultural universal. Unlike the limited systems of other animals, human language is open – an infinite number of meanings can be produced by combining a limited number of symbols. Human language also has the capacity of displacement, using words to represent things and happenings that are not presently or locally occurring but reside in the shared imagination of interlocutors.
Language differs from other forms of communication in that it is modality independent; the same meanings can be conveyed through different media, audibly in speech, visually by sign language or writing, and through tactile media such as braille. Language is central to the communication between humans, and to the sense of identity that unites nations, cultures and ethnic groups. There are approximately six thousand different languages currently in use, including sign languages, and many thousands more that are extinct.
The arts
Main article: The artsHuman arts can take many forms including visual, literary, and performing. Visual art can range from paintings and sculptures to film, fashion design, and architecture. Literary arts can include prose, poetry, and dramas. The performing arts generally involve theatre, music, and dance. Humans often combine the different forms (for example, music videos). Other entities that have been described as having artistic qualities include food preparation, video games, and medicine. As well as providing entertainment and transferring knowledge, the arts are also used for political purposes.
Art is a defining characteristic of humans and there is evidence for a relationship between creativity and language. The earliest evidence of art was shell engravings made by Homo erectus 300,000 years before modern humans evolved. Art attributed to H. sapiens existed at least 75,000 years ago, with jewellery and drawings found in caves in South Africa. There are various hypotheses as to why humans have adapted to the arts. These include allowing them to better problem solve issues, providing a means to control or influence other humans, encouraging cooperation and contribution within a society or increasing the chance of attracting a potential mate. The use of imagination developed through art, combined with logic may have given early humans an evolutionary advantage.
Evidence of humans engaging in musical activities predates cave art and so far music has been practiced by virtually all known human cultures. There exists a wide variety of music genres and ethnic musics; with humans' musical abilities being related to other abilities, including complex social human behaviours. It has been shown that human brains respond to music by becoming synchronized with the rhythm and beat, a process called entrainment. Dance is also a form of human expression found in all cultures and may have evolved as a way to help early humans communicate. Listening to music and observing dance stimulates the orbitofrontal cortex and other pleasure sensing areas of the brain.
Unlike speaking, reading and writing does not come naturally to humans and must be taught. Still, literature has been present before the invention of words and language, with 30,000-year-old paintings on walls inside some caves portraying a series of dramatic scenes. One of the oldest surviving works of literature is the Epic of Gilgamesh, first engraved on ancient Babylonian tablets about 4,000 years ago. Beyond simply passing down knowledge, the use and sharing of imaginative fiction through stories might have helped develop humans' capabilities for communication and increased the likelihood of securing a mate. Storytelling may also be used as a way to provide the audience with moral lessons and encourage cooperation.
Tools and technologies
Main articles: Tool and TechnologyStone tools were used by proto-humans at least 2.5 million years ago. The use and manufacture of tools has been put forward as the ability that defines humans more than anything else and has historically been seen as an important evolutionary step. The technology became much more sophisticated about 1.8 million years ago, with the controlled use of fire beginning around 1 million years ago. The wheel and wheeled vehicles appeared simultaneously in several regions some time in the fourth millennium BC. The development of more complex tools and technologies allowed land to be cultivated and animals to be domesticated, thus proving essential in the development of agriculture – what is known as the Neolithic Revolution.
China developed paper, the printing press, gunpowder, the compass and other important inventions. The continued improvements in smelting allowed forging of copper, bronze, iron and eventually steel, which is used in railways, skyscrapers and many other products. This coincided with the Industrial Revolution, where the invention of automated machines brought major changes to humans' lifestyles. Modern technology is observed as progressing exponentially, with major innovations in the 20th century including: electricity, penicillin, semiconductors, internal combustion engines, the Internet, nitrogen fixing fertilizers, airplanes, computers, automobiles, contraceptive pills, nuclear fission, the green revolution, radio, scientific plant breeding, rockets, air conditioning, television and the assembly line.
Religion and spirituality
Main articles: Religion and SpiritualityDefinitions of religion vary; according to one definition, a religion is a belief system concerning the supernatural, sacred or divine, and practices, values, institutions and rituals associated with such belief. Some religions also have a moral code. The evolution and the history of the first religions have become areas of active scientific investigation. Credible evidence of religious behaviour dates to the Middle Paleolithic era (45–200 thousand years ago). It may have evolved to play a role in helping enforce and encourage cooperation between humans.
Religion manifests in diverse forms. Religion can include a belief in life after death, the origin of life, the nature of the universe (religious cosmology) and its ultimate fate (eschatology), and moral or ethical teachings. Views on transcendence and immanence vary substantially; traditions variously espouse monism, deism, pantheism, and theism (including polytheism and monotheism).
Although measuring religiosity is difficult, a majority of humans profess some variety of religious or spiritual belief. In 2015 the plurality were Christian followed by Muslims, Hindus and Buddhists. As of 2015, about 16%, or slightly under 1.2 billion humans, were irreligious, including those with no religious beliefs or no identity with any religion.
Science and philosophy
Main articles: Science and PhilosophyAn aspect unique to humans is their ability to transmit knowledge from one generation to the next and to continually build on this information to develop tools, scientific laws and other advances to pass on further. This accumulated knowledge can be tested to answer questions or make predictions about how the universe functions and has been very successful in advancing human ascendancy.
Aristotle has been described as the first scientist, and preceded the rise of scientific thought through the Hellenistic period. Other early advances in science came from the Han dynasty in China and during the Islamic Golden Age. The scientific revolution, near the end of the Renaissance, led to the emergence of modern science.
A chain of events and influences led to the development of the scientific method, a process of observation and experimentation that is used to differentiate science from pseudoscience. An understanding of mathematics is unique to humans, although other species of animals have some numerical cognition. All of science can be divided into three major branches, the formal sciences (e.g., logic and mathematics), which are concerned with formal systems, the applied sciences (e.g., engineering, medicine), which are focused on practical applications, and the empirical sciences, which are based on empirical observation and are in turn divided into natural sciences (e.g., physics, chemistry, biology) and social sciences (e.g., psychology, economics, sociology).
Philosophy is a field of study where humans seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves and the world in which they live. Philosophical inquiry has been a major feature in the development of humans' intellectual history. It has been described as the "no man's land" between definitive scientific knowledge and dogmatic religious teachings. Major fields of philosophy include metaphysics, epistemology, logic, and axiology (which includes ethics and aesthetics).
Society
Main article: SocietySociety is the system of organizations and institutions arising from interaction between humans. Humans are highly social and tend to live in large complex social groups. They can be divided into different groups according to their income, wealth, power, reputation and other factors. The structure of social stratification and the degree of social mobility differs, especially between modern and traditional societies. Human groups range from the size of families to nations. The first form of human social organization is thought to have resembled hunter-gatherer band societies.
Gender
Main article: GenderHuman societies typically exhibit gender identities and gender roles that distinguish between masculine and feminine characteristics and prescribe the range of acceptable behaviours and attitudes for their members based on their sex. The most common categorisation is a gender binary of men and women. Some societies recognize a third gender, or less commonly a fourth or fifth. In some other societies, non-binary is used as an umbrella term for a range of gender identities that are not solely male or female.
Gender roles are often associated with a division of norms, practices, dress, behavior, rights, duties, privileges, status, and power, with men enjoying more rights and privileges than women in most societies, both today and in the past. As a social construct, gender roles are not fixed and vary historically within a society. Challenges to predominant gender norms have recurred in many societies. Little is known about gender roles in the earliest human societies. Early modern humans probably had a range of gender roles similar to that of modern cultures from at least the Upper Paleolithic, while the Neanderthals were less sexually dimorphic and there is evidence that the behavioural difference between males and females was minimal.
Kinship
Main article: KinshipAll human societies organize, recognize and classify types of social relationships based on relations between parents, children and other descendants (consanguinity), and relations through marriage (affinity). There is also a third type applied to godparents or adoptive children (fictive). These culturally defined relationships are referred to as kinship. In many societies, it is one of the most important social organizing principles and plays a role in transmitting status and inheritance. All societies have rules of incest taboo, according to which marriage between certain kinds of kin relations is prohibited, and some also have rules of preferential marriage with certain kin relations.
Pair bonding is a ubiquitous feature of human sexual relationships, whether it is manifested as serial monogamy, polygyny, or polyandry. Genetic evidence indicates that humans were predominantly polygynous for most of their existence as a species, but that this began to shift during the Neolithic, when monogamy started becoming widespread concomitantly with the transition from nomadic to sedentary societies. Anatomical evidence in the form of second-to-fourth digit ratios, a biomarker for prenatal androgen effects, likewise indicates modern humans were polygynous during the Pleistocene.
Ethnicity
Main article: Ethnic groupHuman ethnic groups are a social category that identifies together as a group based on shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. These can be a common set of traditions, ancestry, language, history, society, culture, nation, religion, or social treatment within their residing area. Ethnicity is separate from the concept of race, which is based on physical characteristics, although both are socially constructed. Assigning ethnicity to a certain population is complicated, as even within common ethnic designations there can be a diverse range of subgroups, and the makeup of these ethnic groups can change over time at both the collective and individual level. Also, there is no generally accepted definition of what constitutes an ethnic group. Ethnic groupings can play a powerful role in the social identity and solidarity of ethnopolitical units. This has been closely tied to the rise of the nation state as the predominant form of political organization in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Government and politics
Main articles: Government and PoliticsAs farming populations gathered in larger and denser communities, interactions between these different groups increased. This led to the development of governance within and between the communities. Humans have evolved the ability to change affiliation with various social groups relatively easily, including previously strong political alliances, if doing so is seen as providing personal advantages. This cognitive flexibility allows individual humans to change their political ideologies, with those with higher flexibility less likely to support authoritarian and nationalistic stances.
Governments create laws and policies that affect the citizens that they govern. There have been many forms of government throughout human history, each having various means of obtaining power and the ability to exert diverse controls on the population. Approximately 47% of humans live in some form of a democracy, 17% in a hybrid regime, and 37% in an authoritarian regime. Many countries belong to international organizations and alliances; the largest of these is the United Nations, with 193 member states.
Trade and economics
Main articles: Trade and EconomicsTrade, the voluntary exchange of goods and services, is seen as a characteristic that differentiates humans from other animals and has been cited as a practice that gave Homo sapiens a major advantage over other hominids. Evidence suggests early H. sapiens made use of long-distance trade routes to exchange goods and ideas, leading to cultural explosions and providing additional food sources when hunting was sparse, while such trade networks did not exist for the now extinct Neanderthals. Early trade likely involved materials for creating tools like obsidian. The first truly international trade routes were around the spice trade through the Roman and medieval periods.
Early human economies were more likely to be based around gift giving instead of a bartering system. Early money consisted of commodities; the oldest being in the form of cattle and the most widely used being cowrie shells. Money has since evolved into governmental issued coins, paper and electronic money. Human study of economics is a social science that looks at how societies distribute scarce resources among different people. There are massive inequalities in the division of wealth among humans; the eight richest humans are worth the same monetary value as the poorest half of all the human population.
Conflict
Main article: Conflict (process)Humans commit violence on other humans at a rate comparable to other primates, but have an increased preference for killing adults, infanticide being more common among other primates. Phylogenetic analysis predicts that 2% of early H. sapiens would be murdered, rising to 12% during the medieval period, before dropping to below 2% in modern times. There is great variation in violence between human populations, with rates of homicide about 0.01% in societies that have legal systems and strong cultural attitudes against violence.
The willingness of humans to kill other members of their species en masse through organized conflict (i.e., war) has long been the subject of debate. One school of thought holds that war evolved as a means to eliminate competitors, and has always been an innate human characteristic. Another suggests that war is a relatively recent phenomenon and has appeared due to changing social conditions. While not settled, current evidence indicates warlike predispositions only became common about 10,000 years ago, and in many places much more recently than that. War has had a high cost on human life; it is estimated that during the 20th century, between 167 million and 188 million people died as a result of war. War casualty data is less reliable for pre-medieval times, especially global figures. But compared with any period over the past 600 years, the last ~80 years (post 1946), has seen a very significant drop in global military and civilian death rates due to armed conflict.
See also
Notes
- The world population and population density statistics are updated automatically from a template that uses the CIA World Factbook and United Nations World Population Prospects.
- Cities with over 10 million inhabitants as of 2018.
- Traditionally this has been explained by conflicting evolutionary pressures involved in bipedalism and encephalization (called the obstetrical dilemma), but recent research suggest it might be more complicated than that.
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