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Overview Of The Development Of

I. Introduction
There is little said about the prehistory of man and in what the people at that time believed in. Following the first beginnings of believing in supernatural were in the ancient times (3500 BC - 500) when the written and spoken word appeared, various civilizations established various beliefs in the creation of the world, gods, and man. Egyptians had their Egyptian polytheistic religion (their gods Atum, Ra, Amun, etc.), Greek also practice a polytheistic religion having gods for each occasion and virtue (which were later adopted by the Romans), Jews believe/d in Yahweh. Among the various Greek and Roman school of thoughts, the atomists in particular Titus Lucretius Carus, a poet and philosopher supported the idea of biological evolution.
The later rise of new monotheistic religions like Christianity and Islam gave a theological explanation of the creation of the world and man. The Book of Genesis in Judaism's Torah, the Christian Bible, and Islam's Qur'an all talk about Adam being the first man and Eve the first woman which God created out of Adams rib. The church dogma was the ultimate truth for centuries and everybody opposing to church believes (e.g. world and man is a creation of God and not evolution or something third) was convicted by the Inquisition.
During all these millions of years we have always led a struggle for life. The rise of naturalism (the doctrine claims that scientific laws and methods can be applicable to all natural phenomena, and it rejects any kind of divine intervention any phenomena) as a "philosophical perspective", Charles Darwin introduced the theory of natural selection- the survival of the fittest, and with it the first capstones for biology the later developed modern evolutionary psychology were laid.
Today the natural sciences proved that process of human development throughout several millions years and showed that we came out of the animal realm. The question is when this transition happened which still...