[P-Marlowe]

full-fledged humanity as we know it began

Are there any examples of humanity that are not "full fledged"?

Is a fetus a "full fledged" Human or a developing evolutionary potential human?

At what point does a fetus join the ranks of us full fledged humans?

[Claud]

I’m not speaking developmentally but evolutionarily. A fetus is human from the instant of conception.

It’s pretty obvious that whatever Australopithecus is, it isn’t a human being.

And it’s pretty obvious that Sumer is the dawn of humanity as we know it, with religion, agriculture, commerce, art, music, poetry, history.

In between you have creatures that are hard to classify right now. What I mean by not “full-fledged” humanity would be putative human-looking beings who were not descended from Adam and Eve. Augustine casually mentions the possibility of such races in his discussion of the Antipodes.

[old and tired]

Is a fetus a "full fledged" Human or a developing evolutionary potential human? At what point does a fetus join the ranks of us full fledged humans?

Bible 101. Adam he breathed life into after he was already made. The rest of us were "formed in the womb."