1. Developmental Stages and Community Support:

Fetus (-9 months to birth): The individual is entirely dependent on the mother for survival. The mother, in turn, is supported by the community. This highlights the earliest layer of interdependence.
Baby (0-3 years): The individual is reliant on immediate family (parents, caregivers) for survival needs (food, shelter, etc.). The family may still rely on the community for broader support.
Child (3-12 years): As the child grows, direct dependence on the family continues for essentials, but the community also provides indirect support (e.g., education, safety, social structure).
Transition (12-18 years): The individual starts gaining independence and works towards self-actualization. They begin contributing to the community, although support from both family and community is still needed.
Niche Development (18-25 years): The individual identifies their role in society and starts filling a niche within the community. They are now more self-reliant but still benefit from communal resources. Family and community facilitate this process by providing opportunities for growth.
Community Development (25-70 years): The individual, having developed a niche, begins contributing to the development and leadership of the community. Self-actualization is linked to the improvement of communal structures. They give back resources, time, or leadership to the group that helped develop them.
Elderly/End of Life (70+ years): The individual once again becomes more dependent, this time on the community for care, mirroring their dependence in early childhood. The community, which they have supported during their adult years, now provides the resources necessary for the final stage of life.

2. Intersectionality of Biological and Social Needs:

At each stage, the resources necessary for survival (food, water, shelter) are provided by different actors (family, community, or self). The individual moves from a phase of total dependence (fetus) to interdependence (niche development) and finally to contributing to the same structures that once supported them.

The minimal conditions for self-actualization are met differently at each stage. These conditions expand as the individual progresses, with early stages focused on physical survival and later stages on social, emotional, and psychological fulfillment.

3. Moral Philosophy and Reciprocity:

The moral aspect can be derived from this cyclic interdependence. At the beginning and end of life, the individual is reliant on others. In between, they are responsible for developing themselves and giving back to the family and community that enabled their growth. This reflects a reciprocal ethic: individuals receive support when they are unable to provide for themselves, and in return, they contribute to the continued survival and growth of the collective.

Morally, this system suggests an inherent duty to support both ends of the life cycle—the young and the elderly—as they are less capable of self-reliance. The individual's responsibility grows as they move through life, culminating in a leadership or mentorship role later on.

4. Role of Niche Development in Community Evolution:

By finding and developing a niche within the community, individuals contribute to its growth and diversification. This can be linked to evolutionary biology, where organisms evolve by finding and exploiting niches within an ecosystem. Communities thrive by having a diversity of individuals fulfilling different roles, ensuring resilience and adaptability.

This niche specialization also aligns with a kind of social contract: individuals gain resources and support when they are young, and they are expected to contribute back to the system when they are capable.

Community as Foundational Support:

Unlike Maslow's pyramid, which starts with physiological needs (food, water, shelter) and progresses to self-actualization at the top, this model posits that community is the essential foundation and self-actualization is an ongoing process. Without communal support, even basic survival becomes precarious. The community enables access to food, water, and other survival resources, but more critically, it provides the stability and resilience that supports an individual's growth through life.

In this way, communal support is not external to the individual’s survival but deeply intertwined with it, unlike Maslow’s concept of self-reliance in the early stages.

Only feral children are born alone and only self isolated humans in wilderness die alone.

Dynamic Hierarchy of Needs:

The hierarchy of needs should be seen as dynamic, changing over time based on the individual’s stage of life and the community's ability to adapt. Early on, needs are primarily communal (family and caregivers), but as the individual develops and explores their niche, these needs shift toward self-actualization. However, the relationship remains cyclical—the individual’s success contributes back to the community.

This model accounts for individual differentiation and the shifting nature of what is considered "self-actualization" depending on the age and phase of life.

Interplay of Individuality and Communal Resilience:

Synthesis of individual exploration with communal safety. While individuals are encouraged to pursue unique niches that allow them to explore new environments or opportunities, they do so with the community as a safety net. This allows for communal adaptability and growth without risking the safety of the whole group.

This is a key insight: communal flexibility enhances overall resilience because the community can lean on the unique contributions of its members, each of whom brings something new from their niche pursuits.

Reciprocal Model of Development:

Rather than viewing individuals and communities as being in conflict (as many individualist philosophies might), your model recognizes the reciprocity between the two. The individual explores, develops a niche, and innovates, while the community provides the support necessary for that exploration.

In turn, the community evolves based on these contributions, ensuring that the cycle of exploration, innovation, and communal support continues through generations.