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Were coming to understand that life in this world is that of an extended family not just from a human perspective but from all manner and forms of sentient organisms The purpose ofSurviveis not to enumerate the processes of every kind of life up the evolutionary tree from bacteria to humans but to look for the common denominators on that tree and to explore what motivators of all life forms share with greater emphasis placed on primates in general but humans in particular throughout the journey of this book And although the concept of survival is evident in a biological sense it expands far beyond simple physical survival for the human being The questions of psychological emotional intellectual and spiritual survival as well as the overriding question of identity all play a role Who is the me that is fighting to survive That is the existential question we struggle consciously or unconsciously to address