“To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to humanity, no single feature that intrinsically caused one creature to be human where its parents were not... However hard you try to define every point before the signpost as non-human, and every point after the post as human, the river flows continually.” HumanityHistoryArchaeologyHistory Of MankindEarly Humans Book:Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds Source: Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
“Indeed, there is a case for arguing that Homo Sapiens is also Homo Religious. Men and women started to worship gods as soon as they became recognizably human; they created religions at the same time as they created works of art. This was not simply because they wanted to propitiate powerful forces; these early faiths expressed the wonder and mystery that seem always to have been an essential component of the human experience of this beautiful yet terrifying world. (…) It was not tacked onto a primordially secular nature by manipulative kings and priests but was natural to humanity.” ReligionWonderMysteryHuman ExperienceReligious FaithReligious ExperienceEarly HumansHuman Cognition Book:History of God Source: History of God