Hominity

A NEW CONCEPT.
We have found that language has no direct word corresponding to the emersion of man through animal nature.
After discoveries of fossil species belonging to the human family, but possessing neither his skull development nor his genius, words coming from latin homo appeared (hominidae, hominid). But these neologisms have their place only in taxonomy (the Science of Classification) and do not express the profound nature of the question.
In the same way the word "hominization", currently used since 1950, means the evolutionary development of human characteristics that differentiate man from his primate ancestors and does not point to the main characteristics of man himself.
Probably because he felt this deficiency Teilhard de Chardin invented the words "hominisé" and "hominoïde", but both are not totally cleared from a phylogenetic connotation based on natural evolutionary relationships.
So, we had to find a word whose characteristics would be proper to man only. For the animal we have "animality" (the animal nature), the essential nature of a god îs "deity". Between god and animal, man should have his place wilh the word "hominity" which could be defined as all the characteristics proper to man, attaining to the beautiful formula of the philosopher "I think, so I am".
The extreme variation in morphology and size in Australopithecus afarensis (Hadar, Laetoli and Garusi hominids) has to say about the evolution leading to hominity.
Hominid fossils discoveries have provided several australopithecine species, from 1 to 5 million years (Myr), with some human characteristics. The record is still fragmentary and there are many morphological gaps, however comparison of the fossils establishs a divergence of forms from character displacement with time that can be attibuted to an evolutionary pressure on successive and competing species.
When Man Began.
The features of Garusi hominid indicate a possible derived position of the exagerate prognathism of Hadar hominids. This derived position can be opposed to the other derived position in a high position of the anterior masseter origin in Australopithecus africanus - A. robustus - A. boisei. In the two cases we observe a departure from the primitive condition suggested in the Garusi hominid.

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