Whatever genetics might or might tell us about the biological evolution of the species, this specialist discipline can tell us little about the origin and destiny of humankind, because for the past several thousand years, evolution has been more noogenetic than biogenetic.
Furthermore, while we inherit some somatic or physiological characteristics from our parents, what we learn from our teachers, parents, and peers has a far greater influence on our social behaviour patterns, on how we view the world we live in, and hence on our institutions.
It is thus the cultural conditioning of our sick society that inhibits us from fully understanding the limited role that genetics plays in evolutionary processes, whose origins are expressed in the primal concepts of Integral Relational Logic, which is resident in the Cosmic Psyche, emerging from the Divine Source, as the Origin of the Universe.
Coined by English biologist William Bateson between 1872 and 1906 to mean ‘laws of origination; study of inheritance’, from genetic ‘pertaining to origins’, coined by the Scottish essayist Thomas Carlyle in 1831, as if from Greek genetikos ‘genitive case’, from genesis ‘origin’.
In 1909, the Danish scientist Wilhelm Ludvig Johannsen introduced the term gene (in German) to denote “ ‘something’ in the gametes or in the zygote, which has crucial importance for the character of the organism” (in the theory of heredity). That mysterious ‘something’ was discovered when the structure of the DNA molecule was analysed later in the century.