The world without us
The world without us As an outcome of the evolutionary process that is now so familiar at some level to most of us, we are clever, highly social, and highly communicative creatures, our combinatorial intelligence unsurpassed, to our knowledge, for the present. Adult humans naturally seek the help of other adults, and children and domesticated animals, the products of human selection, and create tools out of inanimate objects in the environment, to enable survival. The abundance of help results in an abundance of company, a very large community arising from the evolutionary process. A lot of work is necessary to maintain all of the constituents that makes the community functional. Human parenting is particularly prolonged and physically and mentally demanding, a penalty for having a large and very complex brain. When machines are available to do the work, humans default to having having fewer children and raising fewer farm animals for labor. Non-procreative sexual act...