Human

Humans are the most common and widespread species in Aefareth, followed afterwards by the elves, and then by the animals that inhabitants the continent. They are also presumably the most widespread species in the Eastern Countries, although too little is known about the Eastern Countries to confirm this.

Basic Information

Anatomy

The external human body consists of a head, hair, neck, torso (which includes the thorax and abdomen), genitals, arms, hands, legs, and feet. The internal human body includes organs, teeth, bones, muscle, tendons, ligaments, blood vessels and blood, lymphatic vessels, and lymph. The study of the human body includes anatomy, physiology, histology, and embryology.
The human body has four limbs (two arms and two legs), a head and a neck, which connect to the torso. The body's shape is determined by a strong skeleton made of bone and cartilage, surrounded by fat, muscle. connective tissue, organs, and other structures.

Genetics and Reproduction

Human reproduction takes place by internal fertilisation via sexual intercourse. The average gestation period is 38 weeks. Embryonic development in the human covers the first eight weeks of development; at the begining of the ninth week the embryo is termed a fetus.

Growth Rate & Stages

Development of the human body begins with fertilisation in the womb, where an embryo and later fetus develop until birth. Growth and development occur after birth, and include both physical and pyschological development, influenced by genetic, hormonal, environmental and other factors. Development and growth continue throughout life, through childhood, adolescence, and through adulthood to old age, and is referred to as the process of aging.
After birth, the three main stagers of growth are: infancy and childhood, puberty, and adulthood.
Infancy and Childhood Childhood is the age span ranging from birth to adolescence. In development psychology, childhood is divided up into the developmental stages of toddlerhood (learning to walk), early childhood (play age), middle childhood (school age), and adolescence (puberty through post-puberty).

• Prepubescence
  • Neonate (newborn)
  • Infant (baby)
  • Toddler
  • Play age
  • School age

Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction. It is initiated by hormonal signals from the brain to the gonads: the ovaries in a girl, the testicles in a boy. In response to the signals, the gonads produce hormones that stimulate libido and the growth, function, and transformation of the brain, bones, muscles, blood, skin, hair, breasts, and sex organs. Physical growth--height and weight--accelerates in the first half of puberty and is completed when an adult body has been developed. Until the maturation of their reproductive capabilities, the pre-pubertal physical differences between boys and girls are the external sex organs.
On average, girls begin puberty around ages 12-13 and end puberty around 18-19; boys begin around ages 13 and end around 18. The major landmark of puberty for females is the onset of menstruation, which occurs around the age of 14; for males, it is the first ejaculation, which also occurs around the age of 14.
Adulthood
Biologically, an adult is a human or other organism that has reached sexual maturity. In human context, the term adult has additional meanings associated with social and legal concepts. In contrast to a legal minor, a legal adult is a person who has attained the age of majority and is therefore regarded as independent, self-sufficient, and responsible. In all kingdoms of Aefareth, the age of legal majority is 18 years.
Human adulthood encompassess psychological adult development. Definitions of adulthood are often inconsistent and contradictory; an adolescent may be biologically an adult and display adult behaviour but still be treated as a child if they are under the legal age of majority. Conversely, a legal adult may possess none of the maturity and responsibility that is supposed to define them; the mental and physical development and maturity of an individual has been proven to be greatly influenced by their life circumstances.
On the other side of the coin, some kingdoms of Aefareth, notably Nimore and Tuntemattomaan where children are raised to be warriors, may be treated as an adult even before they reach the age of legal majority in most matters of life. Both Nimore and Tuntemattomaan, due to high rates of mortality in both children and adults, treat adolescents as full adults around the age of sixteen, although they are not officially considered adults until the age of eighteen. In Nimore, this goes so far that royal heirs are considered capable of ruling from the age of sixteen onwards.

Additional Information

Perception and Sensory Capabilities

Commonly recognised sensory systems for humans are vision, hearing, touch, taste, smell, balance, and visceral sensation. Most humans have senses that are inferior to those of animals, but some humans through Aefareth have honed their senses to be more sensitive, and have developed better hearing, sight, and even smell.

Contents

Scientific Name

Homo sapiens

Geographic Distribution

• Aefareth
• The Old Lands

Related Organizations

• Aes

Related Ethnicities

• Aesian
• Aevarina
• Ailaeniela
• Airolyrae
• Ayuipani
• Caelestan
• Ceorisian
• Cisiana
• Hevarian
• Khaehana
• Khelan
• Larimaran
• Lehliani
• Meadian
• Nainythan
• Neriana
• Nevielan
• Nishan
• Sofían
• Tuntemattomaani
• Veavian
• Xairisan