zodiac9 Apr 2006

So the lifes (we'll call them "animals" now) kept producing offspring and kept getting bigger and stronger. Smarter, too, because smartness was a good way of getting away from things that were trying to eat you, especially if you were smaller and weaker than some of them. Over millions and millions of years, and with a LOT of accidents and things happening, one kind of these animals kept becoming smarter. These are what we call "humans", and they had to be smart because they weren't as strong as most things. Fortunately (for the humans) it turned out that being smart was better than being big, because you could figure out how to find food better and stay out of the way of things like glaciers. Among these "humans", the ones who asked questions had greater chances of living than the ones who didn't. These weren't "big" questions in the beginning, just things like "should I hunt mammoth here or there?" or "why don't I move to that valley where there's better food?" Asking questions became an "evolutionary trait", meaning the humans who survived were more likely to have children who asked questions and so on and so on for millions of years, until it was practically certain that you'd be asking questions as soon as you could talk.