Human History and Ecological Principles

What we are now just beginning to learn about Human history--that it is itself a transitional stage in Evolutionary development--so far transcends previous concepts of Human history, that any of those are knowable only as phases of that history.  Furthermore, since Human history has its non-Human antecedents, and perhaps has its non-Human consequents, e. g. a species that can survive in an environment that none has previously, properly speaking, the the history is no longer Human.  In other words, the undermining of Anthropocentrism that begins with with Heliocentrism is beginning its full fruition with extraterrestrial travel.  Of course, the completion of that fruition is likely at least millennia away.  But these long-term possibilities still have relevance to the current moment--their terms demonstrate that the Human species is, and has all along been, determined by Ecological principles, and needs to be more conscientiously adopting them as its own.