How are humans born on the Earth?

Birth is the essential process that moves our species forward.

Without reproduction and its whole process, humanity would have become extinct a long time ago.

In the current day, where the population is booming at a rate that is exponentially growing, the miracle of birth is something constantly around us.

One of the questions is, however, how did we become humans.

From a small infant to an old person, how did humans reach the characteristic feature that differentiates them from all the other species on the planet?

The journey to becoming a human

According to science, the first human ancestors that set foot on this planet seemed to have appeared between five to seven million years ago.

This can be traced back to apelike creatures in Africa who began to walk habitually on two legs. 

After this scientists have a little less certainty about what happened but they believe that Homo Sapiens started evolving at least 130,000 years ago from ancestors who had remained in Africa. By now, their brain had reached today's size.

They started spreading out of Africa and moved to a nonmodern human species called the Neanderthals in Europe and parts of Asia, and Homo erectus, typified by Java Man and Peking Man fossils in the Far East.

One of the main questions that come out of this is how the modern behavior of humans burst into the picture.

Archaeologists believe that it started only after Homo sapiens had pushed into Europe.

This theory was based on a theory called ''creative explosion'' on evidence like the magnificent cave paintings in Lascaux and Chauvet.

Several recent discoveries in Africa and the Middle East are providing the first physical evidence to support an older, more gradual evolution of modern behavior, one not centered in Europe.

Yet some other scientists believe that all of human evolution is centered around African descent.

According to a few prominent researchers, the genetic change could explain a more recent and sudden appearance of creativity in humans.

The confusion and uncertainty about the evolution of modern human culture began from what seems to be a large disparity between the way the species first looked modern and when it started acting modern.

One thought process is that maybe the first Homo Sapiens emerged with the ability to be creative, but it remained dormant time they needed it for survival.

Another possibility is that this gradually arose in response to stress on the new social situations, environmental changes, or just the overall; competition from the nonmodern human species.

This can have come later too, due to some kind of undetected genetic transformation.

Further discoveries have shown that around 40,000 years ago was the turning point in human creativity.

This is marked by when modern Homo sapiens arrived in Europe and left the first unambiguous artifacts of abstract and symbolic thought.

At this point, humans were creating more advanced tools, burying their dead with ceremony and expressing a new kind of self-awareness with beads and pendants for body ornamentation and in finely wrought figurines of the female form.

As the time elapsed, humans started depicting on cave walls stories about their lives through elaborate drawings and paintings of deer, horses, and wild bulls.

According to scientists, a more abstract kind of Symbolic thinking, is a form of consciousness that extends beyond the here and now to a contemplation of the past and future and a perception of the world within and beyond one individual.

Activities such as thinking and communicating through abstract symbols are the foundation of all creativity, art, and music, language, and, more recently, mathematics, science, and the written word.

Along with this, social factors play a crucial role in understanding modern humans. Families and social groups would most probably be living in closer proximity.

They would end up interacting on multiple occasions which would lead to the creation of many jewelry, ornaments, and other goods.

These were seen as part of some sort of shared communication, hinting to people outside the groups about a strong social identity among those who were part of this circle.

The question about how humans have taken the form of the contemporary human is still being questioned and debated due to the abundance of evidence to support all different kinds of claims.

As archaeologists remind themselves, culture today is hardly uniform from place to place, and it probably never was.