Originally Posted by Ubique Daemon

This has made us into a superior species among the mammals on the planet, and little by little we have settled on every continent and have developed a very large population, totally out of proportion compared to the populations of other large, mammalian species.
The way I see it there is however another factor that is crucial to our success, and that is man's instinctual drive for exploration and discoveries. We have a built in hang to go places, to find and conquer new land. Because of this, we have all the way from the beginning of our emergence, wandered from continent to continent, and through trial and error we have crossed vast expanses of oceans and mountain ranges, not knowing what we're looking for, simply to explore new areas and break frontiers.
We are driven by a fundamental curiousity towards all that is unknown, and where does this curiousity come from? It comes from the genes, of course. We are genetically programmed to explore, and this exploration- and curiousity-gene has made us into an extremely successful species on this planet.
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