Human Evolution

I have recently read a blog post by Susan Hawks. I found the blog to be very interesting although she does makes some rather big stretches in her argument. Based on Susan’s profile, one can assume she is a very free thinking person. She has a unique philosophy of spirituality and governments' role in society. I agree with most of her ideas and liked her connection between the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly and our current state in human existence. I agree that in order for human evolution to continue and new institutions to emerge; older systems must die off to allow for these new organizations to take hold. She believes that a radical rebirth of society is necessary and inevitable. Susan views government as an immune system that’s role is to protect the organism (the human race). However, during times of such rapid growth the government does not recognize this process as necessary, and fights the transformation to the point of actually self-destructing. Susan is quoted as saying, “When the caterpillar is in a chrysalis stage, its physical body goes through such a rapid transformation that its own immune system recognizes the change as an outside attack. It then begins to attack its own organism because it doesn’t recognize that the process it is undergoing is natural and necessary.” If interested one can read her entire argument and other posts by going to . Also, here is a short clip from NOVA summarizing its series on fractal geometry. I would recommend anyone interested to check out the site because it offers very good videos on math and science.