We are different.  Our brain has evolved faster than the rest of us.  We have, in totality therefore, evolved ourselves out of nature.  
But I'm one of those who choose to believe that if we evolved ourselves into this, we can evolve ourselves out of it.  We can use our brains to figure it out and make it work for our brains, our bodies, and our planet.  We have an obligation to use our highly-evolved brains.
Some would have devolve.  I put the animal rights/vegans in this category.  Who cited the study about vegans having mental decline in later life?  Someone on this list or the paleolife list when I first signed up about 8 months ago.  Some of those folks even talk openly about de-evolution for humans as a perceived positive - implied, taking us all down a notch.  
I don't want to be a monkey.  I don't want to go backwards.
gale


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Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 9:56:31 PM
Subject: Re: Letter From New Scientist Magazine

Keith: Thanks for the reply  Do please provide a more "complex and nuanced" example or two from the literature of hunter gatherer belief that humans were not the pinnacle of the natural world. 

Jim