WHAT IT MEANS

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WHAT IT MEANS

• To Be Human

(50 of our DNA is the same as a bananas!)
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hu?man (pronounced hyu man, hyoo-muhn) SOCIETY
AND CULTURE definitions 1.of, pertaining to,
characteristic of, or having the nature of
people human frailty. 2. sympathetic humane a
warmly human understanding. 3.of or
pertaining to the social aspect of people human
affairs.
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Biological.. Definitions.

• 4. consisting of people the human race.
• 5.a human being.

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1) The nature of people, human frailty

• Homo sapiens (Latin for "wise man" or "knowing
  man") the nature of people separated from the
  rest of the animal kingdom by conscious
  intelligence, or at least the degree of it.
• Motivation the desire to do things, other than
  to survive. But both juvenile humans and apes
  play, to learn about the world, and to grow up?
  Are there parallels in all cases of motivation in
  the animal kingdom?
• Emotion it is considered that all animals have
  innate survival orientated emotions, and that
  only humans behavior can be controlled by
  involuntary emotions like joy, love, envy, sorrow.

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2) sympathetic. Humane.

• To think of others before ones self, do good
  deeds, to help other people human individuals
  are able to put others first and make sacrifices.
  (unlike, for instance, Ants, which only look out
  for the larger number of Ants and calculate loss
  to the colony large numbers of humans can be
  involved in a rescue search for one person lost
  at sea, for instance.)

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3) human affairs.

• Ingenuity, science and technology - Human
  cultures are both characterized and
  differentiated by the objects that they make and
  use. (Early humans left stone tools, pottery and
  jewelry)
• Unparalleled curiosity the human race has
  explored the whole world, and has ventured out
  into space around us our curiosity with the
  elements leads to developments in our quality of
  life
• Organisation, government, politics and conflict
  war between states. Government. Organisation etc.
  In human society, these are as far as we know
  unique in at least the degree to which they are
  prolific.

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4) the human race.

• Race and ethnicity - Human racial categories are
  based on both ancestry and visible traits,
  especially skin color and facial features. Ethnic
  groups, on the other hand, are more often linked
  by linguistic, cultural, and national or regional
  ties. Other animals dont have categories so
  complex or defined.
• Evolution the point at which modern humans
  broke away from apes is the key what was this
  change that makes us different. Regardless, we
  have an understanding of evolution that we are
  our own race, developed from common ancestors
  which other species are apparently oblivious to.

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5) A human being (the bign Wills bit)

• Physiology and genetics
• Behaviour
• Ideals
• Spirituality
• Arts, Mathematics and Literature

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• For us to be part of the human race we have to
  differentiate parts of our mind to apply to us
  alone.
• 98 of our DNA is exactly the same as a
  chimpanzee. However, chimpanzees have not built
  an equivalent to the Palace of Versailles or
  written the Brandenburg Concertos.

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• Our individual behaviour is mostly mirrored in
  the natural world
• Even those traits such as unreasonable
  destruction are mirrored by elephants,
  chimpanzees have been shown to murder and badgers
  often place a dead family member in the set and
  block up the entrance (similar to the Egyptian
  Kings). It is prudent to remember that humans
  have evolved from a subspecies of chimpanzee.
• In essence our physicality is similar to that of
  chimpanzees. It can therefore be said that, aside
  to our physical difference, being human is the
  ability to harbour a far more developed sense of
  being.

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THE IDEAL

• Humans have always aspired to an ideal. Ever
  since we have lived in caves males have wanted to
  be a successful hunter Romans aspired to
  Warrior-God status and the recent rise of
  celebrity culture is just a recent
  manifestation. Animals display to impress but no
  other has a ideal to aspire to.

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SPIRITUALITY

• Furthermore, humans have always wanted to explore
  their being. This often manifests itself in
  religion
• A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature,
  and purpose of the universe
• The vast majority of all humans base their
  behaviour on a philosophy classed as religion
  or not that is based on a moral

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• code that is unique to themselves. Termites have
  an incredibly structured society but humans are
  unique in that we express our own opinions within
  this society.
• All modern day civilisation of the world are
  based around four religions
• Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Sikhism.

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ARTS AND MATHEMATICS

• Part of this deeper spirituality is the
  representation of features of our lives and
  environment. This can be separated into two parts
  
• Cavemen drew the first figures depicting hunts
  many millennia ago. This representation of life
  has been mutated in many ways into visual arts
  like painting and sculpture Scripture and
  music. Humans have the ability to appreciate
  these arts beyond the primary appearance. Birds
  do not consider the Classical religious symbolism
  of Michelangelo's

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• David and how it represents the Florentine
  resistance to the Vatican in 1500-1506. Birdsong
  is designed to communicate and not to be enjoyed
  like Mozarts Cosi Fan Tutti.
• 2. Religion and Science/Mathematics have always
  been intertwined, and scholars throughout history
  have tried to establish physically the nature of
  the universe we live in and trying to understand
  it. In essence, Humans are the only creatures to
  be aware of a greater existence beyond our world.
• IN CONCLUSION, HUMANITY IS BEING AWARE OF
  EXISTANCE BEYOND ITSELF.