On humans and animals, humans came about by the same processes that created the other organisms on our planet. The basic premises are the same. For example, genes have selfish interests. It doesn't matter if you're a plant, a bacteria, a fungi, a protist or an animal like Homo sapiens. Our genes have to somehow further their existence or go extinct. This leads to selfishness and hence, nature is itself is full of conflict. Chimpanzees may go on cannibalistic raids, plants compete with eachother for space and light, fungi engage in chemical warfare on other fungi and insects and the area where two different corals meet is a warzone. Members of a species compete with members of its own species as well as members of other species. Generally speaking, that's the way life is for humans and other organisms and looking at things comparatively, humans may not be particularly bad. As previously mentioned, we are actually very good at cooperating.
Regarding morals, my comment was on how social media is helping to speed up changes in moral values. Other factors may also help to do this, like a free press or democracy. I think peoples moral values are generally improving and I was mainly thinking of the parts of the world that really engages in social media. I use the word "generally" because there are always exceptions. If you don't agree with me on this, that's fine.
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