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I think applying evolution to other aspect of human society is incredible productive, useful, and generative if only that it reminds us of how fluid our world truly is. We all spend so much time in our own minds that it is hard not to become a little egocentric. We may not be everyone else’s world, but we defiantly are our own. It is like how we are never really able to see ourselves grow older, as we see ourselves in the mirror every day. Furthermore as we are the key player in our own mental evolution of thoughts and ideas it is hard to realize when exactly our view changes, or even recognize that it has. Studying evolution reminds us of how the world really isn’t static but a dynamic play of stories. Biological evolution forces you to think about yourself in respect to this massive and all consuming concept which has apparently shaped the entire world we live in. It reminds us that individuals are so miniscule in the grand evolutionary scale that they aren’t even the unit of evolution. Populations are. That is a pretty big kick off the high horse. By allowing ourselves to fall it opens a whole world of ideas that we would have never been able to conceive before. That is why I think so many people are afraid of it, because what if human beings aren’t the be all and end all of the universe but just a little blip along the way.