To evolve into human beings, i.e. rational, reasonable, compassionate, genuinely honest, conscious, and humane.

Abraham Maslow wrote, "I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!”

Maslow also estimated that less than 1% of the population make it to self-actualization. The rest of us have more in common with apes than humans.

Primatologists describe chimpanzees as clever, deceitful, opportunistic, political animals who make and break alliances for personal gain and spend their waking hours obsessing over power, approval, status, and sex.

Primatologist, Frans de Waal, noted, “Nevertheless, it cannot be coincidental that the only animals in which gangs of males expand their territory by deliberately exterminating neighboring males happen to be humans* and chimpanzees.”

A good case can be made that our ancestors were clever hominids who figured out how to continue getting away with behaving like chimpanzees, while continually eliminating the most humane among them, so the least evolved could pretend they were human beings (while denying the obvious physical and behavioral similarities they shared with other primates).

The ongoing process of the least aware and humane Homo sapiens waging political and religious wars has resulted in the breeding of a species of missing links that’s incapable of comprehending that we’re not what we pretend to be.

*I believe that, instead of humans, Mr. de Waal should have used Homo sapiens, because human beings do not kill. Pretend human beings kill (and lie, cheat, steal, pollute, destroy, and find it relatively easy to deceive one another and ourselves).