[LittlePuppetBoy]

Originally Posted by Rob Instigator

In Kurt Vonnegut's CAT'S CRADLE, he tells of a calamity which strikes humanity in 1986, which eventually leads to the extinction of all the human race except those descended from a small group shipwrecked on the island of Santa Rosalia, most northerly of the Galapagos. Over the next million years, their descendants evolve into seal-like creatures with much smaller brains, greatly increasing the general level of happiness.

(vonnegut attributes our general unhappiness as a result of brains TOO big.)

Edit: That should read GALAPAGOS, not Cat's Cradle

I love that book