Human: Concept, Species and Characteristics

We explain that it is a human and to which species it belongs.In addition, the behaviors that characterize the human being.

The oldest evidence of the human on the planet is about 315,000 years.

What is a human?

An individual of the species Homo sapiens is called human (in Latin: "wise man"), belonging to the family of hominids, order of primates, and dominant species of planet Earth today.It is a species bipeda, mamifera, capable of reasoning and of modifying its environment for its benefit and convenience, as well as of manufacturing tools and using them with its upper extremities

The oldest evidence of human presence in the The planet has an age of about 315,000 years, when our species was just one of the genus Homo.

But after the disappearance of Homo. neardentalis ("Man of the Neardental") about 28,000 years ago and also of the Homo floresiensis ("Man of the Flowers" or Hobbit ) about 13,000 years ago, we are the only species of the genus that remains .The reasons for this are unknown, but it is known that parts of our ancestors' DNA survive in ours.

The set of humans is called humankind .And there is a slight conceptual distinction between a human and a human being, although biologically or scientifically there is no such.

This distinction has to do with the human being of any member of the species, while a human being It is someone whose behavior, conduct and moral or ethical values ​​are, at least in the most extreme cases, compatible or similar to those professed and defended by the rest of humanity.

Humans are also social or gregarious beings, who prefer to live in company of our species than alone. We are the only living beings able to communicate verbally , that is, through articulated language with capacity of meaning and capacity of symbolic abstraction.This is due to the complexities of our brain, the fruit of our particular evolution.

Formerly human and man were used as synonyms, but it is not advisable to do so since it involves an invisibility of the female gender, preferring to talk about "human beings" or "human".

It can serve you: Evolution of Man.