Thoughts...

I was walking my dog the other day and I saw an enormous spiderweb stretched between a low-hanging tree branch and the sidewalk. Inside one of the holes in that web, there was a tiny little spider in the process of making its own web. Although miniscule, it was a perfect orb, and it kind of made me think. A spider's mother abandons it at birth, leaving it to fend for itself. If it survives to adulthood, it will then, without having been taught, create an intricately woven home for itself using industrial-strength thread that comes from its ass. Furthermore, it knows how to use this home to procure food for itself.
Now think about humans. The human brain is probably a billion times as large as that of a spider, yet consider the process we go though to get food and shelter for ourselves. Unlike spiders, we can't just pull these things out of our asses. We go through eighteen-plus years of parental coddling. At least twelve years of schooling. Four years of college. Perhaps grad school. All this is supposed to teach us skills necessary to get a job. The money from the job goes towards an apartment and groceries, which will, if we're lucky, turn into a nice house and pate from Whole Foods.
I'm betting humans will go extinct before spiders will.