The Heart of Human Evolution… Where We’ve Come From & Where We‘re Going!

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The Heart of Human Evolution…

Where We’ve Come From & Where We‘re Going!

The Earth is our mother, with an age of approximately 4.54 billion years. My question is, what has happened in that time and, more importantly for us, what future can we expect!

These are questions that oracles and soothsayers have confidently answered for most of human existence, but what can current, and popular, science say about issues that are sure to salve the modern mind?

Imagine a mother and child – what do these 2 lovely creatures share, because what they share is shared by all of humanity, and all living organisms! The cycle of birth, life and death has been repeated innumerable times since life first appeared on this watery planet, and will continue long after we have all disappeared. But, is there a common and constant thread that joins us with the very first life?

I’ll say there is, and a very obvious one at that: geneticists have studied the process of meiosis extensively, as well as how your DNA double helix divides to combine with a strand of your partner’s DNA to create your children. So, there is no doubt or controversy about the fact that genetic material and components from previous generations become thoroughly mixed as they pass from generation to generation, and that all animals and plants alive today are a combination of the genetic components from previous generations, and genetic components that have spontaneously arisen in the meiotic reproductive cycle.

This means that parts of all of us are alive in our children, as well as in all of their descendents! So, does it not make primordial sense to protect those components, by giving our children, and the mothers who created and nurtured them, the best possible start in life?

And, if we look beyond our own lives, and our own unique combination of genes, to a future when all human life will be threatened by the disappearance of the fossil fuels and petroleum that have made modern, civilized life possible, then all but the dimmest will get very busy providing solutions to overcome that disappearance!

Please see www.greenmillennium.eu for some of my own suggestions!