Darwinian kinship knowledge has not yet produced an ecological ethic.

Evidence

It is a century now since Darwin gave us the first glimpse of the origin of species. We know now what was unknown to all the preceding caravan of generations: that men are only fellow-voyagers with other creatures in the odyssey of evolution. This new knowledge should have given us, by this time, a sense of kinship with fellow-creatures; a wish to live and let live; a sense of wonder over the magnitude and duration of the biotic enterprise. … Above all we should, in the century since Darwin, have come to know that man, while now captain of the adventuring ship, is hardly the sole object of its quest, and that his prior assumptions to this effect arose from the simple necessity of whistling in the dark. … These things, I say, should have come to us. I fear they have not come to many. — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 387

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Science and mechanization gave wild things their human value — Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac: With Other…, 4; More knowledge does not necessarily produce ethical rejection of empire. — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1343

Broader Connections

• More knowledge does not necessarily produce ethical rejection of empire. #expands (0.82) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 1343