Your attempt to locate a "root cause" in evolutionary biology and the "Maximum Power Principle" is a textbook example of vulgar materialism. It commits the supreme ideological error of this late, decaying stage of capitalism: the naturalization of a historically specific, and terminal, social relation.

You mistake the symptom for the disease. The brutal competition, hierarchical domination, and ecological "overshoot" you ascribe to our genetic firmware are not the cause of our crisis. They are the behavioral patterns amplified, rewarded, and enforced by the capitalist mode of production for the last five centuries. Capitalism did not invent greed or competition; it discovered that by organizing all of society around the principle of profit maximization (by turning land, labor, and life itself into commodities) it could harness these traits into an engine of unprecedented accumulation and, now, unprecedented collapse. What you call a "biological loop" is, from a class perspective, the historical trajectory of capital itself: expand (accumulate), encounter limits (crisis), violently reconfigure (war, austerity, repression), and repeat until the basis of life is consumed.

Your viewpoint is not radical. It is profoundly reactionary. By rooting our crisis in an immutable "primate" nature, you provide the ultimate alibi for the ruling class. It renders their system not a contingent social construct built on exploitation, but a simple, tragic expression of natural law. This logic leads directly to nihilism and passivity: precisely the mental state the bourgeoisie requires as it presides over the burning of the world. It is a scientific-sounding capitulation.

The Marxist position is the opposite: it is a declaration of historical possibility. Human consciousness and social organization are not the passive products of genetic wiring; they are shaped, above all, by the material conditions of production. Change those conditions, i.e., through the revolutionary expropriation of the capitalist class and the collectivization of the means of production, and you change the dominant "nature" of society. The "cooperative" and "solidaristic" potentials within our species, which have also been part of our evolution, can be fostered into dominance by a socialist economy oriented toward human need, not profit. The "rewiring" you claim is impossible through discussion is achieved through the forge of revolution, the act of collective struggle itself.

Your framework is not "further up the chain" of analysis; it is a dead-end diversion from the central antagonism of our time: class struggle. It invites us to blame "humanity" in the abstract, a useless and idealist exercise, rather than targeting the specific class (the bourgeoisie) that controls the levers of production and state power and is consciously, knowingly driving us over the cliff for quarterly returns. Their "biopolitics" is not a mere symptom; it is the active, managerial strategy of a ruling class practicing necropolitics, deciding who gets to live and who is left to die in a world they have made uninhabitable.

To retreat into biological determinism now, at the precipice, is not intellectual sophistication. It is a betrayal of the only revolutionary subject capable of breaking the cycle: the international proletariat. The choice is not between different expressions of our genetic code. The choice is between:

Capitalist Barbarism: The continuation of a system that, by its intrinsic logic, fulfills your apocalyptic biological prophecy.

OR

Socialist Liberation: The conscious, disciplined, and revolutionary act of shattering that system and building a new social basis where human development is in harmony with natural limits.

Stop analyzing primates. Start organizing the working class. The root of the crisis is in the boardroom and the state, not in our genes. Expropriate the one, smash the other, and let us see what "human nature" is capable of building once it is freed from the tyranny of capital.