Every object is doomed to burn, every person doomed to die; But, do you know what can transcend all of time, or, at least, until humans go extinct? Ideas.

That is what made humans decouple from nature, not our running distance, not our big brains, opposable thumbs, bipedal walk, but, our ability to pass information and knowledge down from one generation to the next. Usually, in the form of a good story.