Question

What does it mean to be "modern" biologically and culturally? What does it mean to be human?

Antropology 101

Answer 1

According to science humans evolved over a period of time and once they became humans, there was not stopping as their cognitive, cultural and family life started improving. Today being human is not just physical but also cultural and technological. The physical make-up do not make one completely human, they need more than just the human physical set-up such as, language, society, family, norms, culture etc.

To be human is to live with other people because humans are social animals. To be human is to have and understand emotions. It’s about understanding emotion and exhibit appropriate emotions. To be human is to speak language of whichever group they belong to. If one lives in family and fulfills the societal norms they are still human.