Evolutionary Self-actualization

[Meta Morphoses]

Hi,

I just recently came across a thought of how self-actualization actually started in the history of men.

Perhaps you know this kind of story:

On an attempt to improve their being Adam and Eve tried to taste  the fruits from the tree of insight in and awareness about the good and the evil. They realized the fact that they are naked (in the deep psycho-analytic sense of being "naked"). They tried to cover their nakedness (the second act to improve or self-actualize from what has happened). They were forced to leave paradise. Ever since men tries to grasp what reality and truth is like.

 

Perhaps you may also go along with another kind of story:

Evolution theory tells us that men stem from ape. In former times we all were ape. And there was one ape who must have started a self-actualization journey. The result was the emergence of humans on the earth. As there is a distinct difference between apes and humans today one may deduce that some apes failed the self-actualization journey and some other succeeded.

 

Given the ideas of evolutionary psychology and the description of the mind as a scorpion-stung, drunk monkey - what are those parts in your brain that root back to the ape that was not yet on the self-actualizing journey ?

I am very much interested in what you guys think of both stories and the idea of evolutionary self-actualization.