Humankind and History

The 'history of the human species' has hardly been about the human species per se.  Usually it has been a narrative featuring individual members or groups of members, even economic classes.  Indeed, the perhaps most influential concept of History, if the pervasiveness of its calendar is any indication, is the Christian, the arc of which is an escape of members from the species, i. e. spanning the divine curse on the race in Genesis 3, to the redemption of individual souls.  Likewise, Darwinism explains the origin of the human race, but without any projection of an ascent to some new species, leaving a vacuum that has been filled by the likes of 'Social Darwinism', which is typically invoked to justify the privileged few.  In contrast, as has been previously discussed, a definite concrete pattern of the millennia-old development of the species has emerged--Planetization--the most conspicuous manifestation of which is the Internet, therefore occasioning a reconsideration of many hitherto accepted theses about it.