[Livia]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

Well that's just it though, and the primary instincts are all based around survival. It turns out, the biggest asset in adaptability and survival is intelligence, by far. Humans got too smart, and therefore "too good at surviving" and because of the inevitable population boom we're quickly outgrowing our habitat (Earth) and have nowhere to expand to, so (unless there's a sudden leap in space travel technology and terraforming) we'll use up everything that this one has to offer for as long as is possible and then simply die off.

We are victims of our own success.

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i saw an article recently where they showed that dogs have been forced bred favouring those that can control their eye muscles to look cute to humans .... we need the same sort of thing to weed out the heartless bastards from the population

I'd be happy to chip in for that particular research.