The Constitution of the Human Race:
Evolutionary science is the study of what all humans have in common and where their differences originated. It is the only study of humanity that transcends all religious, cultural, and personal ideology, because it is the only study that depends exclusively on observable evidence.
Humans evolved as one species because the same set of biological laws affected all of our ancestors equally for all of our evolution. By now that set of biological laws is written in our DNA, because everyone who didn’t feel like following them died out by natural selection.
Throughout history governments have succeeded or failed according to how well they’ve accommodated those evolutionary laws. When given the choice between two sets of artificial laws, groups of people collectively choose whichever complies better with evolutionary laws under their living conditions. The way in which democracy has been replacing monarchy all over the world for the past two centuries is a perfect example of this. After thousands of years of monarchy, it wasn’t by coincidence that people all over the world felt like replacing monarchy with democracy over the course of two centuries.
This trend has been easy to recognize over the course of recorded history because over the course of recorded history the changes in our living conditions have been following the same trend: from lesser to greater mastery of the physical world, including food production and the harnessing of natural resources.
The trend of political systems being adapted to compliance with evolutionary laws under their living conditions can be expected to continue, even if our living conditions stop following the trend of humanity exerting greater and greater mastery over the physical world, and begin changing in some other way. As I will demonstrate throughout this book, that will begin happening within this century. By anticipating how our living conditions are going to change, we can anticipate how our political systems will need to change to keep up—or else, what political systems can be expected to replace them.
The set of evolutionary laws that everyone already lives by is the Constitution of the Human Race. It is being revealed to us through science. Nobody has any choice but to follow evolutionary law, because evolutionary law made us who we are. However, if evolutionary law was written down, at least people could choose to cooperate with it instead of trying to contradict it. More specifically, people could stop creating inevitable conflict in the world by trying to force other people to contradict it.
Since the goal of globalization is to turn the entire human race into a single community, before that community will be able to function as a community, a Constitution will have to be written for it.
No set of rules for the world will ever completely eliminate conflict from the world, but by basing a Constitution of the Human Race on the original evolutionary sources of everyone’s feelings, that set of rules for the world would invite the least amount of conflict of any possible set of rules. As long as the Constitution took into account its own inability to completely eliminate conflict from the world and gave people ways to solve their disagreements peacefully, as the Constitution of the United States does, then the effects of whatever disagreement remained would be minimized.
(This is not to say that the United States Constitution could be used directly as a template for a Constitution of the Human Race, or even that it eliminates conflict in America as efficiently as possible. It is, after all, a set of laws that was written over 200 years ago, before the Theory of Evolution or the Laws of Thermodynamics were discovered.)
Evolutionary law applies equally to every human, and it’s beyond the ability of anyone to control. As a result, the Constitution of the Human Race already applies equally and fairly to everyone.
Even if evolution didn’t literally happen and the world was created by an omnipotent, omniscient deity, that deity must’ve created all of the physical characteristics about people, animals, and plants that scientists can measure. Those characteristics point to a certain course of development by which they came about, and the scientific term for that course of development is “evolution”.
Jesus, Mohammed, Moses, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and other great leaders like them taught their followers to build peaceful civilizations. By studying “evolution” scientists have discovered fundamental laws of human behavior, or “evolutionary laws”. If an omnipotent, omniscient deity created the world and it is his will that we should build peaceful civilizations, he has already given us everything we need to continue building peaceful civilizations in the modern world.









