I think what is important here is not so much realizing the nature of how of former evolution has molded our present psychology, but how we can use that information to positively effect the psychology of the presently developing, singular, global humanity -- homo globalis, perhaps we could call it. This being is not some large-headed, six-fingered monster from the old Outer Limits, but rather Humanity as an entity onto itself. As a matter of fact, recent studies showing a decrease in independent creative thinking since the Victorian Era, may well indicate a backing up exactly into this type of global corporate evolution.



To wit, we must take specific note of the "4th pillar" of evolution, natural altruism. From the bacterial mega-colony, to communal rooting systems of grasses, to insect colonies, to school, flocks, and herds -- we see that there is a point where individuals link in an altruistic manner to a group, eventually reaching some higher sense of individual.



This idea rings in deep accord with the concepts of endosymbiotic theory per Lynn Margulis's 1966 landmark paper, "The Origin of Mitosing Eukaryotic Cells" (The Journal of Theoretical Biology). While at this point, it is only considered established that certain cellular organelles evolved through a prior mutualist relationship formed between cell and viral invader, evidence of such symbiotic development (or "altruistic" in human terms), seems to be present in all of nature per the above -- along with the establishment of unified behaviors, and balance become the homeostasis of greater-self.



In fact there is an almost eerie organizational structure from the subatomic level up through macro-molecules -- especially noting the crucial role discovered for quantum mechanical tunneling in enzyme function discovered in 2006. [I believe it was the quantum physicist Wigner who first proposed a fundamental role for quantum mechanics to explain protein stability, but was pushed off by biologists at the time who claimed that enzymes provided stability without need of QM principle. -- ironic...] It seems that at the grander scale of the macro-evolution -- the inorganic into the living cell -- there may be a fundamental role here for quantum mechanics and related fundamentals of physics in holistic organization. -- A natural quantum computer effect of sorts, if you would.



So I would propose that linking mutual concern, responsibility, and guarantee may be the key to the next stage of human evolution where we are everybody else, and they are us. But because we are human, the jump will require all the free will that we can muster against our individual egos that would hold us back to remain -- well, basically, germs (or worse, the clever powerful ones remain cancers).



Perhaps that strange 21st Century oddity that we are evolving, the Internet, is our coordinated mind, calling to us from the future, leading us -- begging for us -- to be born. Lets us consciously implement the integral education and societal environment it will take to steer us in this direction despite our unique human egos. In fact, let our unique human minds use those egos as tools exactly to the accomplishment.

