Good news.  Humans are no longer in the middle of the food chain.  One of the major contributors towards this has been the harnessing of fire.

The world changed:

A lack of powerful muscle no longer disadvantaged our species.
Food, when cooked, became easier and faster to eat, and more nutritious.
This reduction in time needed to catch and eat drastically left us with time on our hands to, well, think about things – including thinking about what we could do with fire.  

With rapid brain development comes with the question about how far we can progress (see Lucy as a modern take on this).  Some suggest we are Human Becomings.

We can do so many things, and no doubt will continue to progress our technologies, but we’ve always struggled to keep up with our being or character.  (Twitter trolls are able to use the technology but we feel something else is struggling to catch up.*)

Humans have been around in different forms for millions of years.  As our knowledge of genetics now provides us with the ability to step outside of natural selection, we enter a period of incredible Human development.

What if this were to see our being and doing coming together in ways which allow us to identify and express the idea that to be Human means all we touch and make can thrive and flourish?

The most important question, as we explore these early years of the twenty first century, appears to be What does it mean to be Human?

(*Check out this article by AJ Jacobs to see what we have to negotiate in our thinking every day.)