Man is made in the image of God. In other words, man has free will with a conscious mind that affects and creates his world. What I find interesting is while physics is exploring nonphysical realms of energy and consciousness; the groundwork having been laid by quantum mechanics, biology is still seemingly stuck in a strictly physical Newtonian physics universe. They still believe that self awareness is a phenomenon of the physical brain, which is like saying the music you hear on the radio is a phenomenon of the radio’s circuitry.
the species in question are the evolution of the work to develop the current God like image that actually has infinite variation