Red, I think we can go too far in throwing some of these terms around. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._D._Laing

On the main topic: Coberst, there is also the possibility that we humans are not the final evolutionary product, since we seem to be so poor at stewardship. Perhaps, we need at least one more (or several more) evolutionary steps, a la Teilhard de Chardin.