I’m not sure it is confirmable in the first place. Darwin looked at things from the biological point of view. I think there’s more to it than that.
I don’t buy into the Christological point of view that @zenvelo suggests. There are plenty of us in the world who don’t accept Catholic dogma who still see that there is some degree of unity between species. Ascribing that to a catholic theologian seems, well, simplistic.
Mitochondrial DNA seems to be a pretty good unifier. There are some outlers however. Some of the species found near high temperature and pressure sea vents and volcanic hot springs. Although, even these have ribosomal RNA analyzed in 1977 by Carl Woese and George E. Fox
See link especially Edward Taylor…
The idea of animism was developed by the anthropologist Sir Edward Taylor in his 1871 book Primitive Culture
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animism
Animism (from Latin anima, “breath, spirit, life”)[1][2] is the religious belief that objects, places and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence.[3][4][5][6] Potentially, animism perceives all things—animals, plants, rocks, rivers, weather systems, human handiwork and perhaps even words—as animated and alive.