Evolution and Terrestriality

Environmentalism provides evidence that the Human species is not independent of other species, thereby repudiating Aristotelianism, according to which it is a Terrestrial species, but independent of other species, and Theological doctrines, according to which its origin is celestial.  Now, according to standard Darwinism, a new species originates by adapting to a different environment via the development of some new characteristic, e. g. the Human thumb.  So, in that case, a principle that transcends merely Human behavior, e. g. involves the behavior of apes, too, determines the origin of the Human species, and the species is not independent of Terrestrial history or principles.  But something new has developed in the dynamics of Evolution in recent centuries.  Humans have begun extraterrestrial exploration, which is an apparently unprecedented event in what has hitherto been a long history of Terrestrial Evolution, i. e. it is a departure from all hitherto environments. Furthermore, the standard pattern has been broken--rather than a species adapting to a different established environment, it constitutes a species adapting to a wholly new, previously uninhabited, primarily unknown environment.  In the long term, these celestial realms may prove to have been inhabited all along.  But until then what seems a likely Evolutionary step to a new species, is also a step to a new environment.