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==Life== | ==Life== | ||
===Birth and Early life=== | ===Birth and Early life=== | ||
| + | Compared with that of other species, human childbirth is dangerous. Painful labors lasting twenty-four hours or more are not uncommon, and may result in injury, or even death, to the child or mother. This is because of both the relatively large fetal head circumference (for housing the brain) and the mother's relatively narrow pelvis (a trait required for successful bipedalism, by way of natural selection).[28][29] The chances of a successful labor increased significantly during the 20th century in wealthier countries with the advent of new medical technologies. In contrast, pregnancy and natural childbirth remain relatively hazardous ordeals in developing regions of the world, with maternal death rates approximately 100 times more common than in developed countries.[30] | ||
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| + | In developed countries, infants are typically 3 – 4 kg (6 – 9 pounds) in weight and 50 – 60 cm (20 – 24 inches) in height at birth.[31] However, low birth weight is common in developing countries, and contributes to the high levels of infant mortality in these regions.[32] Helpless at birth, humans continue to grow for some years, typically reaching sexual maturity at 12 to 15 years of age. Human girls continue to grow physically until around the age of 18, and human boys until around age 21. | ||
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===Sexuality, marriage, and reproduction=== | ===Sexuality, marriage, and reproduction=== | ||
| - | ===Daily Life | + | The human life cycle is similar to that of other placental mammals. New humans develop viviparously from conception. An egg is usually fertilized inside the female by sperm from the male through sexual intercourse, though the recent technology of in vitro fertilization is occasionally used. The fertilized egg, called a zygote, divides inside the female's uterus to become an embryo, which over a period of thirty-eight weeks (9 months) of gestation becomes a human fetus. After this span of time, the fully-grown fetus is expelled from the female's body and breathes independently as an infant for the first time. At this point, most modern cultures recognize the baby as a person entitled to the full protection of the law, though some jurisdictions extend personhood to human fetuses while they remain in the uterus. |
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| + | Write something here about the everyday life of most humans, ie farming, guild professions, etc... | ||
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===Later life=== | ===Later life=== | ||
| + | The human life span can be split into a number of stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood and old age. The lengths of these stages, however — particularly the later ones — are not fixed. | ||
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| + | There are striking differences in life expectancy around the world. The developed world is quickly getting older, with the median age around 40 years (highest in Monaco at 45.1 years), while in the developing world, the median age is 15 – 20 years (lowest in Uganda at 14.8 years). Life expectancy at birth in Hong Kong, China is 84.8 years for a female and 78.9 for a male, while in Swaziland, primarily because of AIDS, it is 31.3 years for both sexes.[33] While one in five Europeans is 60 years of age or older, only one in twenty Africans is 60 years of age or older.[34] | ||
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| + | The number of centenarians (humans of age 100 years or older) in the world was estimated by the United Nations at 210,000 in 2002.[35] At least one person, Jeanne Calment, is known to have reached the age of 122 years; higher ages have been claimed but they are not well substantiated. Worldwide, there are 81 men aged 60 or older for every 100 women of that age group, and among the oldest, there are 53 men for every 100 women. | ||
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===Death=== | ===Death=== | ||
| + | Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Death may refer to the end of life as either an event or condition.[1] Many factors can cause or contribute to an organism's death, including predation, disease, habitat destruction, senescence, malnutrition and accidents. The principal causes of death in developed countries are diseases related to aging.[1] Traditions and beliefs related to death are an important part of human culture, and central to many religions. In medicine, biological details and definitions of death have become increasingly complicated as technology advances. | ||
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| + | The philosophical questions of when human personhood begins and whether it persists after death are the subject of considerable debate. The prospect of death causes unease or fear for most humans. Burial ceremonies are characteristic of human societies, often inspired by beliefs in an afterlife or immortality. | ||
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Revision as of 06:54, 31 July 2007
| Humans | |
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 A typical human - from the mainland area of the main continent. | |
| Order of Creation | Seventh |
| Avg Height | 6'0" |
| Avg Weight | 180 |
| Skin | Varies between ethnicities |
| Hair | Varies between ethnicities |
| Eyes | Varies between ethnicities |
| Current Location | Concentrated on the main continents central areas surrounding the great basin |
Humans, also commonly referred to as men, are bipedal primates belonging to the mammalian species Homo sapiens in the family Hominidae. Humans have a highly developed brain capable of abstract reasoning, language, and introspection. This mental capability, combined with an erect body carriage that frees their upper limbs for manipulating objects, has allowed humans to make far greater use of tools than any other non-sentient species. Humans originated as one unified master race hundreds of thousands of years ago, but they now are made up of eight distinct ethnicities, developed during the time in which humans had separated onto eight different areas of the world, each with differing climates and environments. The human master race has reasserted itself however, after The Great Exodus lead to all ethnicities of man converging, due to interbreeding. The total human population of the world now stands at roughly 100 million.
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Eight Races of Man
Men have been partitioned into eight individual species or groups - each unique. These eight different forms of man gradually manifested themselves over the course of hundreds of thousands of years, when men lived in separate areas of the world, thus genetically changing them in fundamental ways.
All men come from the initial master race of men. That master race had originally disappeared in its original form once genetics of humans began to diverge - but has since reappeared on the south eastern island, hidden from view of the rest of the world. Its re-emergence is driven by all eight forms of man living together in one area, mixed amongst each other, and dozens, if not hundreds of generations of interbreeding between them, thus re-establishing the master race
The classification of the eight formal forms of man are based in what area of the world they currently hold majority in. There is of course some intermixing and inter movement of races, but by and large, they are "based" in these regions
Master Race
Master humans have a mix of all forms of skin color, resulting in a rich tanish brown color, with a golden shine. Hair type is equally uniform, being a somewhat thick bodied but maliable type of hair. Color, however varies amongst all people born of this race - being any number of colors that can be seen among all races on the mainland - black, brown, blonde, plantinum, etc - as well as a number of new colors that had been lost (pink, purple, blue for example). Eye color is equally diverse, but unlike the eight races of the mainland, they do not pair the same with hair color - in other words, you will not always (or even often) see somebody with red hair and green eyes... you may see red hair with brown eyes, or blue.
Name
Author explanation - No explanation is needed here - although, when referring to the individual races of men, some explanations of the etymology of their name is certainly warranted (and is duly noted in their respective articles).
Inter story name explanation text here.
Appearance
Abilities
Unique Abilities
Use of the Current
Habitat
Origin and History
Life
Birth and Early life
Compared with that of other species, human childbirth is dangerous. Painful labors lasting twenty-four hours or more are not uncommon, and may result in injury, or even death, to the child or mother. This is because of both the relatively large fetal head circumference (for housing the brain) and the mother's relatively narrow pelvis (a trait required for successful bipedalism, by way of natural selection).[28][29] The chances of a successful labor increased significantly during the 20th century in wealthier countries with the advent of new medical technologies. In contrast, pregnancy and natural childbirth remain relatively hazardous ordeals in developing regions of the world, with maternal death rates approximately 100 times more common than in developed countries.[30]
In developed countries, infants are typically 3 – 4 kg (6 – 9 pounds) in weight and 50 – 60 cm (20 – 24 inches) in height at birth.[31] However, low birth weight is common in developing countries, and contributes to the high levels of infant mortality in these regions.[32] Helpless at birth, humans continue to grow for some years, typically reaching sexual maturity at 12 to 15 years of age. Human girls continue to grow physically until around the age of 18, and human boys until around age 21.
Sexuality, marriage, and reproduction
The human life cycle is similar to that of other placental mammals. New humans develop viviparously from conception. An egg is usually fertilized inside the female by sperm from the male through sexual intercourse, though the recent technology of in vitro fertilization is occasionally used. The fertilized egg, called a zygote, divides inside the female's uterus to become an embryo, which over a period of thirty-eight weeks (9 months) of gestation becomes a human fetus. After this span of time, the fully-grown fetus is expelled from the female's body and breathes independently as an infant for the first time. At this point, most modern cultures recognize the baby as a person entitled to the full protection of the law, though some jurisdictions extend personhood to human fetuses while they remain in the uterus.
Daily Life
Write something here about the everyday life of most humans, ie farming, guild professions, etc...
Later life
The human life span can be split into a number of stages: infancy, childhood, adolescence, young adulthood, adulthood and old age. The lengths of these stages, however — particularly the later ones — are not fixed.
There are striking differences in life expectancy around the world. The developed world is quickly getting older, with the median age around 40 years (highest in Monaco at 45.1 years), while in the developing world, the median age is 15 – 20 years (lowest in Uganda at 14.8 years). Life expectancy at birth in Hong Kong, China is 84.8 years for a female and 78.9 for a male, while in Swaziland, primarily because of AIDS, it is 31.3 years for both sexes.[33] While one in five Europeans is 60 years of age or older, only one in twenty Africans is 60 years of age or older.[34]
The number of centenarians (humans of age 100 years or older) in the world was estimated by the United Nations at 210,000 in 2002.[35] At least one person, Jeanne Calment, is known to have reached the age of 122 years; higher ages have been claimed but they are not well substantiated. Worldwide, there are 81 men aged 60 or older for every 100 women of that age group, and among the oldest, there are 53 men for every 100 women.
Death
Death is the permanent end of the life of a biological organism. Death may refer to the end of life as either an event or condition.[1] Many factors can cause or contribute to an organism's death, including predation, disease, habitat destruction, senescence, malnutrition and accidents. The principal causes of death in developed countries are diseases related to aging.[1] Traditions and beliefs related to death are an important part of human culture, and central to many religions. In medicine, biological details and definitions of death have become increasingly complicated as technology advances.
The philosophical questions of when human personhood begins and whether it persists after death are the subject of considerable debate. The prospect of death causes unease or fear for most humans. Burial ceremonies are characteristic of human societies, often inspired by beliefs in an afterlife or immortality.
