0105 Is the Lebenswelt that we evolved in a way to envision the Garden of Eden?

If so, then paradise is full of danger and opportunity.  Paradise overflows with belonging.  The human body co-evolves with a full range of social circles, intimates, family, teams, bands, community, mega-bands and tribes.

This is the core concept informing the discipline of gene-culture co-evolution.  Each social circle offers opportunities and dangers.  Hominins adapt to the offers by embracing the opportunities and ameliorating the dangers.  In the long run, hominins adapt more and more to the triadic relations inherent in each social circle.  Productive and coherent social circles increase reproductive success.

0106 This is our our ancestor’s legacy.

We evolve as images of God.  God is relational, actual and potential.  From time immemorial, our hominin ancestors take up their suffering as servants to one another. They become more aware of The One Who Signs Nature.  God “hand talks” nature, just as our own manual-brachial word gestures image and indicate natural things.

We innately anticipate growing up in a world of social circles, embracing the living, revering the dead, anticipating the ones to come, circles within circles, even including the plants and animals and landscape and the One Who Gives Without Us Knowing Why.

We learn to read nature as the hand-talk of God.See the e-masterwork, The Human Niche.