Evolution is often seen as a competitive process, but really evidence may suggest it is really about adapting and sharing your environment. Humans ability to communicate and use their hands allows them to benefit from and help other creatures who benefit them. We are not competing with nature but enjoying the benefit of sharing our environment with plants and animals. Survival is a matter of cooperation, between living species. We are not just the product of our own evolution, plants and animals play a symbiotic role in our lives, not to mention all the microbes it takes to digest our food. We are not fighting life on Earth so that we might survive, but depending on it to help us survive. We have past the point where new territory can be won from outsiders and become one people. Will we adapt to this change or will we continue to fight and disregard life on this planet until there is none? I hope we will understand the value of life and protect it and not forget we depend on it. Survival of the most compassionate, ethical, logical, and inclusive is the revised theory.
Suggested reading:
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2009/02/01/single-gene-allows-glowing-bacteria-to-switch-from-fish-to-squid/
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2010/12/13/friendly-genes-are-more-likely-to-be-passed-around/
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/01/01/how-a-quarter-of-the-cow-genome-came-from-snakes/
http://www.forteantimes.com/strangedays/science/1786/the_viral_genesplicer.html
http://www.contracostatimes.com/science/ci_25817209/huge-elephant-birds-dna-ties-little-kiwi-prompt
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