UsHumans.net: Wondered
• How and when did the universe begin?
• How did molecular life begin and then evolve into fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, primates, and humans?
• What are the differences between animals, mammals, primates, and humans?
• What are the biological origins of human behavior, emotions, and morals?
• What is life like for gatherer-hunters?
• When did we first become farmers and first build cities, and what was life like at those times?
• What was life like in Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Athens, 13th-century Cahokia, Medieval China and Europe, 19th-Century New England, Yoruban villages, and in the U.S. during the 1920s?
• How do human priorities and daily life compare among gatherer-hunters, subsistence farmers, and factory workers?
• What was the Industrial Revolution and how has it changed our lives?
• What are the Hindu, Muslim, Confucian, Jewish, Christian, and Buddhist religions?
• What was the Renaissance?
• What is science, Big Government, Big Business, and globalization?
• What is democracy and how does it differ from a dictatorial system?
• How did we acquire our views of inalienable human rights?
• Why do civil wars occur?
• What sort of government seems natural to a people?
• What is the purpose of all the daily politicking seen in the news?
• What is poverty?
• How have our wages, infant mortality rates, lifespans, crime rates, poverty and inequality rates varied through the ages?
• What are some meaningful priorities and goals for our community, nation, and planet-wide civilization?
• How can we arrange our mutual civilization such that it enables each of us to pursue the limits of our individual and combined talents, passions, and goals?
• What does it means to be human, and what is our place in the universe?
• What is our civilization, who chooses its goals, and where we should next take our civilization?