The animalistic side of us – the homo sapiens, greatest of the primates, apex predator beyond match – gives us packs, herds, tribes.
The angelic side of us – the rational mind, free to assent, a fractal image of the infinite mind of the Creator – gives us the species.
In wedding angel to animal, the human being is born. An animal with not just intelligence but wisdom, ready to meet any selective pressure with not just awareness but reason, capable of thinking of the long-term benefit not just to the self, not just to the tribe, but to the species – and beyond the species, the community of all rational life forms.
The human being is the one into whose hands their own evolution has been given.
“Choose life…”