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Making us human Human life began in Africa.Here our ancestors created the first stone tools to chop meat,bones and wood.It was this increasing dependency on the things we create that makes humans different from all other animals.Our ability to make objects allowed humans to adapt to a multitude of environments and spread from Africa into the Middle East,Europe and Asia"Neil MacGregor I believe that the urge to create is a large part of what makes us human.It first manifested itself in the creation of functional objects but developed into a desire to represent the world through art about 40,000 years ago.In part the desire to create demonstrated itself by the leaving of marks,such as the prehistoric hand stencils blown on to the walls of caves.I imagine that those marks where left as evidence that the maker existed,that he or she was here.