1. Evolve from a lower lifeform
  2. Form tribes
  3. Establish dominance among females and males for breeding rights
  4. Tribe grows
  5. Too many females for one alpha so breeding rights is dividend
  6. Tribes split and go different ways
  7. Time passes
  8. War with fists
  9. war with sharp sticks
  10. War with sharp rocks
  11. War with sharp metal
  12. War with really fast metal
  13. War with bombs and eventually nukes
  14. Wars to dangerous to fight
  15. Destroy opposing tribes from within with propaganda, disinformation, cultural abandonment, etc
  16. Eventually learn how people manipulate and never be manipulated again
  17. World peace or world destruction