Paleontology

The first formations of social Man or in Marxist terms, the role of social labour in the development of humans from apes. Many attempts have been made at explaining this, from in Classical times, Hobbes, Rousseau to Hegel. The contemporary study of hominization is found in archeology and often looks for signs that mark out human habitations from pre-human forms, examples of this being the use of burial gifts etc...

Theology

In ancient philosophy, it referred to the ensoulment

Ensoulment

Ensoulment, in theology, refers to the moment at which a human being gains a soul, whether newly created within a developing fetus or pre-existing and added at a particular stage of development....

of the human fetus. When the soul is said to enter the fetus at some time later than conception, this is sometimes called "delayed hominization", as in the Aristotelian belief in ensoulment 40 days after conception.