Republic of the Philippines

Bicol University
College of Education

NAME : NATHANIEL O. REMENDADO

BLOCK : BSEd-Social Studies II
SUBJECT : World History
PROFESSOR : DR. Maribel M. Naz

“The Epic of Being Human: Chapter 1 in Review”

We have advanced in time, across borders and we still have not finished
conquering the stars and the shores about and below. We have conquered so much as
a species, and have advanced so much as to have conquered land air and seas.
However, our narrative of evolution has not been so easy, and equally so, not as simple
as so many of us would think. Human development and evolution has been one of the
most hotly-debated topics in recent scientific memory. Yet, behind the debates, and
theories, the story of our evolution and origin shows incredible—if not, remarkable—
development of our collective identity and speciation. This highly incredible feat that
man has forged on has been that which no word or book or author could contain. The
story of our evolution has shown us, as the end product of that process, that we have
been humans well before we were physiologically. The greatest lesson we could take
away from the reality of our evolution and development is that the ways we see life—art,
science, technology, and music: the interior of the academe of Humanities—has never
changed, continues to evolved, and has become so crucial that it deserves credence.

Our evolution has highlighted the best of human development, and has created
an imprint in our Humanities. The story of human evolution has shown—if not,
elucidated with clear and convincing evidence—that the human psyche was the first to
evolve, and is continuing to evolve through our empathy, sense of wonder, ability to
explore, curiosity, and, most importantly, creativity and innovation. As the reporter of the
first chapter, I have realized, and reflected with extreme sense and caution and dignity,
that human development was never cephalocaudal, or lateral, or even mitotic—our
evolution, by precedent, was metaphysical. I say so because of the insurmountable
evidence that we have portrayed a sense of honor, a sense of giftedness and a sense
of art and music that became the metaphysical indicators of extraordinary human
development—that which touches beyond anatomical and becomes spiritual. We have
developed spiritual-metaphysical-ontological orientations well before any technology,
and advancement in science. Some may argue that the way we see ourselves and the
world around us was the first science, and I would agree. During our development we
never lost our sense of wonder and sense of beauty. We have conquered first our
minds—and that is truly beautiful—before we have conquered the world.

Truly our reality of evolution has become also a cornerstone of understanding the
arts. This often disregarded dimension of human evolution needs necessary emphasis.
The development of arts is a necessary lens in which we must see our world. It shows
us that our development started with our paintbrush and arts. Humanity truly is more
human because of the reality of those which makes us human: arts, the sciences,
music. At the end, it was truly our souls that became human first, and everything else
are just footnotes.