Labor creates people, and it is the decisive force for human survival and development.

Engels wrote in 1876 < The role of labor in the transformation from apes to humans > In this paper, the principle of labor creating people is clearly put forward and comprehensively demonstrated. He pointed out that labor "is the first basic condition of the whole human life, and it has reached such a level that we have to say in a sense that labor created man himself"

Under the direct promotion of labor, early human beings generally experienced four stages of development, including early apes, late apes, early homo sapiens or ancients, late homo sapiens or newcomers.

In the development process from early apes to late homo sapiens, the brain volume of human beings is increasing, and the body characteristics are more and more different from apes and similar to modern people. With the improvement and diversification of labor tools, economic life has gradually enriched, and primitive spiritual civilization has begun to appear. Since the late Homo sapiens, human beings have gradually developed into various races in the modern world.

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human labor is a purposeful and planned conscious activity, and the result of the activity already exists in people's minds in advance; Animals' activities driven by instinct are unconscious, and they can't "conceptually" produce the results of the activities in advance.

Human labor is man's active transformation of nature, dominating nature through labor, and laying the mark of his will in nature; The instinctive activity of animals is only to adapt to and use nature, and to change nature simply by their own existence.

Human labor begins with making tools, and making and using labor tools is an inevitable and universal element of human labor; Generally speaking, the "tools" of animals are just their bodies (claws, teeth, etc.). Some animals occasionally use ready-made tools in nature, but they can never make even a very clumsy stone axe.

Labor is the characteristic that distinguishes human beings from other animals, including apes, while making tools is the fundamental sign that human beings are different from animals in instinctive activities.

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