Evolution

When people are asked “what is certain in life?” The most unanimous answer would be Change. When we look at the things from science perspective the word would be “Evolution.”  Humans evolved from animals, animals evolved other species so on and on. But when I think about different cultures, traditions, languages, food, body structures of people and animals across the world I wonder whether the pattern of evolution is same across the world.

I guess humans started evolving from animals at different places like America, China, India, Brazil, Egypt, Europe etc., more or less at the same time. I do not think there would be one male or female initially but a group evolved at these places randomly and systematically from other species. I do not want to say humans evolved from lesser species, as the word lesser is relative. I observed a definite pattern almost in all the groups, may be it is already proved in science. The pattern looked like as if it is bound to happen if universe started again.

• All the evolved species in one particular region traveled in search for food, shelter and safety basically to get survived and thus might have met others in their way and then formed groups. Groups provide sense of safety. This is one of reasons in any country where people are minority they are always in groups.

•  Language came into existence when groups became larger. Till then communication would have happened through body signals. When groups have became even larger they might have split and divided and went on forming new languages with the limited knowledge they had. If you observe most of the languages in a particular region are almost interlinked. Means if you master one language properly you can understand/ learn other languages easily. For eg: Almost all European languages use same script but have different sounds. Spanish and Italian almost sound similar. In India almost all languages are derived from Sanskrit. Chinese and Japanese look similar. Even in some parts of South America people speak Native Spanish. In some of Canada people speak Native French. The reason might be different groups might have traveled longer distances to start their own communities.
•  After forming communities based on the geographic and climatic conditions of the particular region people started constructing their houses (shelter) and designing their dresses. I strongly believe clothing came into existence with climatic conditions. The places with warmer conditions are the places with lesser clothing and the places with colder conditions are the places with heavy clothing.
•  After that culture might have evolved. The older people might have set guidelines in order to safe guard their communities and control the group.

• As the group got bigger there might be people who wondered what is there outside their communities and must have wandered. After traveling many places some might have settled in foreign lands and some might have returned to their homelands with stories (good and bad about other communities) to tell. They might have implemented and corrected some of their practices with the new knowledge and thus cultures started evolving.
• Music and dance are almost there in any culture. These art forms might have come when people find difficulty in expressing themselves through language. The music and dance has roots coupled with the culture. You cannot separate them.

•  Language, music and dance tell about the people of the culture who are using them.  Eg: Tamil Language is easy to learn and you can speak very fast and when you observe the people they are always in hurry and fast. It has been formed in that way. People of this culture always in hurry/ fast to do more. More intellectuals came from this culture than any other culture at least in India.
•  The geographical resources in a particular region primarily determined eating habits. The ones living in the coastal regions are predominantly the ones eating the seafood. The desert living (non green pasture) people are predominantly depended on other animals for food. The ones living in the greener pastures are predominantly depended on plants for food. But due to merger of people from different regions and through various cultural exchanges even the food habits are evolved.
•  God evolved when people did not have answers for so many questions that are causing imbalances in their lives.  Nobody knew the answers and the people with higher intellectual might have said we need a person with some more intellectual and when asked where does he /she lived the intellectual people might have shown the outer space the place from where the rain and sunlight come. If you observe every culture when you ask the people in it about god they will defiantly show the sky. Depending about the geographical and social conditions different gods and different forms evolved. The mutli- hand , mutli-head  god forms are symbolic representation of  the complex things God can perform. Based on form people started forming stories or to make believe in the god communities might have created stories. After some time God has become subject in every other story. To teach the younger generations good or bad, to teach what to do or what not to do, to teach ethics, dharma, lesson learnt they involved god. In some culture intellectual humans became god, in some culture formless form became god.  In order to differentiate ones own culture with that of others people created religion.  A religion is something, which has certain rules, and in order to make people follow them communities linked them to God and said to be followed. God is belief with respect to science. The more one had belief the crazier he/she became. Thus leading to various methods to pray gods. Even praying has evolved over centuries.
•   Weapons evolved from gathering food to protecting ones’ communities from others, which lead to drawing borders between communities. The communities that were not able to sustain merged with others, the communities that were very strong invaded others and in the process evolved human perceptions and cultures.

• Games are the activities that are invented to pass the time. This depends primarily on the climatic conditions and geography of a particular region.

 If you observe any thing in one culture , there should be the same thing in another culture but in a different form.Now with the advent of Internet, lot of information exchange is taking place, which is leading to evolution of everything. People who are fighting to protect one’s culture cannot do that, as evolution is certain.