The Fascinating History of how our Planet developed, its Inhabitants, its Civilizations. Why and when did our Planet come into being? How did living beings develop on Earth, including plants and microorganisms? How, when and where did human Life first occur? What were the first forms of society, the first languages like? Why did Cultures choose different paths of development, paths that nevertheless often coincided? How did differences in social standing occur and why were small hordes and village communities gradually replaced first by chieftainships and their leaders, and later by ever more powerful statehoods, kingdoms and nations? Which part of human being is due to genetic material and which one to cultural heritage? Why and how did Religions develop? Why are there always new wars? But how did our species come about, the crowning achievement of evolution as we like to see ourselves? Was there ever truly a “beginning” for any species, or did the various forms of life always merge from one form into the other? Is that the reason why all organisms are forever linked together? Is a family the place where man and woman accomplish their biological duties, where they supply each other with love, food, protection etc. and where they create offspring? Are we meant by nature to live a life of solitude, or to spend our time in the middle of an anonymous mass of fellow beings, or are we perhaps intended for a life in smaller groups? Is Earth in its present state to be considered normal, or is it merely transitory? Is extinction the rule and survival the exception? Is imbalance perhaps normal and balance exceptional? Catastrophy and Disaster which happened during evolution, are they in fact maybe just an agent for necessary change and phases which initiated progress? Was the global weather situation that prevailed during the ice age a catastrophy, or was it on the contrary a highly stable condition, allowing mankind to adapt? Is Religion an indispensable item for human existence, is it a positive factor, or rather counterproductive? Is Incest a question of genes or of culture? What do we know about Sex and Procreation? How did States develop? What will our future be like? Questions and ever more questions. This author would like to help find some answers, answers which are based on careful research of available sources such as scientific presentations, articles and books listed in the index of sources and literature that you will find at the end of this book. The result is a highly interesting and very readable synopsis of scientific findings, obtained through painstaking research that often took many years, from fields such as molecular biology, genetics, animal and plants science, chemistry, geology, sociology, behavioral science, mathematics, physics, medicine and applied mechanics. This book presents scientific fact in an easily digestible form, sheds some light on origin and evolution of our planet, plants, microorganisms, species of animals and humans and the various civilisations, as they occurred during Earth´s history.weiterlesen