14 Facts About Modern humans

Social interactions between Modern humans have established a wide variety of values, social norms, and rituals, which bolster human society.

Anatomically modern humans emerged around 300, 000 years ago in Africa, evolving from Homo heidelbergensis or a similar species and migrating out of Africa, gradually replacing or interbreeding with local populations of archaic humans.

All modern humans are classified into the species Homo sapiens, coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 1735 work Systema Naturae.

Problems for Modern humans living in cities include various forms of pollution and crime, especially in inner city and suburban slums.

The most commonly defined body systems in Modern humans are the nervous, the cardiovascular, the digestive, the endocrine, the immune, the integumentary, the lymphatic, the musculoskeletal, the reproductive, the respiratory, and the urinary system.

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Apart from bipedalism and brain size, Modern humans differ from chimpanzees mostly in smelling, hearing and digesting proteins.

Around ten thousand years ago, Modern humans developed agriculture, which substantially altered their diet.

In general, Modern humans can survive for up to eight weeks without food, depending on stored body fat.

In 2020 it is estimated 9 million Modern humans die every year from causes directly or indirectly related to starvation.

Disregarding extinct hominids, Modern 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.

These include allowing them to better problem solve issues, providing a means to control or influence other Modern humans, encouraging cooperation and contribution within a society or increasing the chance of attracting a potential mate.

Evidence of Modern humans engaging in musical activities predates cave art and so far music has been practiced by virtually all known human cultures.

An aspect unique to Modern 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.

Philosophy is a field of study where Modern humans seek to understand fundamental truths about themselves and the world in which they live.