This is much more amazing - consciousness arising. They have just found a jawpiece in Ethiopia that is 4.4 million years old. The emergence of human life is recent. We are biological entities living in culture. These questions define culture.
Every culture has a religious point of view.
40,000 years ago there was a bear culture. The bear was buried with his bones in his mouth. This was the first idea of another life - the first cultural remains of modern Homo Sapiens. Bodies now begin to be ritually buried - death means something. Scientific evaluation began only 450 years ago as we tried to understand where we came from.