I don't think so. My bet is on 'competition for resources', which is something that every organism needs to do. Every species needs to be competitive, needs to fight for resources.
The problem only is that we are so good at competition for resources that we've out-competed every other species on this planet. Don't get me wrong - any species that somehow hits on similar exploits as we did (tool use, cooperation) will find itself in a very similar situation sooner or later; the moment where they start destroying the ecosytem that supports them. For us that probably started with agriculture, maybe even earlier, when we killed off all other apex predators.
So, if there's something that's "selected against", it's our unexpected success. I don't think that there are many times in the history life on a planet that a species lands such a jackpot.
Unfortunately we're just like Joe Shmoe after a lottery win; we spend all the loot in one spree over the planet and wake up a few years later, facing the consequences of our reckless behavior while we were drunk on power.
Our monkey brains just aren't built for the life in paradise.
So, if there's something that's "selected against", it's our unexpected success. I don't think that there are many times in the history life on a planet that a species lands such a jackpot.
Unfortunately we're just like Joe Shmoe after a lottery win; we spend all the loot in one spree over the planet and wake up a few years later, facing the consequences of our reckless behavior while we were drunk on power.
Our monkey brains just aren't built for the life in paradise.