Interrelatedness

An anthropocentric view of the world, abetted by the dominant position of the human species, tends to ignore or rather forget that life has sprang from the womb of the earth. The main consequence of this common beginning is that life on earth has common ancestry.
Concerning the human species, according to Guy Murchie in The Seven Mysteries of Life, the most distant relation you can have with any human being, regardless of race, is approximately that of the 50th cousin (if someone finds this hard to believe, it is mathematically proven). This means that all our family trees merge into one genetic tree which covers the whole humanity when we reach back fifty generations.
One of the implications of the above is that what diverse spiritual teachings have been claiming about the brotherhood of man is true but if we want to be more accurate we should be talking about the cousinhood of man. The interesting point for me here is that we could reach such 'spiritual' insights through scientific observations.
The second effect is that there is no such thing as purity of race since all our ancestors have intermixed. Now, when we take into account the whole of life, this interrelatedness pervades everything. For example, can you specify the boundary between you and the outside world? Firstly, you are made of some common elements found on earth. You breathe the world, you eat the world and you develop your consciousness through your interaction with the world.
Life would be meaningless without this interrelatedness, which makes it all the more imperative for humanity to find new ways of perceiving reality. These new ways should enable us to stop fragmenting reality and consequently ourselves because we have tended to focus on the foreground of competition and disregard the background of cooperation which is the prerequisite for sustaining life.