Gravity and Evolution

Geocentrism is one Ancient theory that is repudiated in the Modern era; another is Teleological Physics. The two are combined in Ancient Philosophy to explain why Humans are Earth-bound: it is in the Nature of this imperfect species to tends towards a Cosmologically inferior realm.  So, concomitant to the replacement of Geocentrism with Heliocentrism is the replacement of Teleological Physics with Mechanistic Physics, according to which what keeps Humans Earth-bound is Gravity.  Now, the apparent Necessity of that fate is implicitly challenged first by Hume's dismantling of Causal Connection, and then by Kant's Constructivist revolution.  A century later, Nietzsche is resisting the "spirit of gravity" and speaking of teaching "men to fly", apparently unaware that within a decade these would no longer be merely figurative expressions.  At about the same time, a theory of Human ascent appears--Darwinism.  So, the departure, about another century later, of Humans from their terrestrial habitat, reveals the common direction of Modern Astronomy, Modern Physics, and Evolutionism--the overcoming of Gravity.