Hypothesis: domestication in pets is largely the result of selection for permanent childhood, so the pet never becomes fully autonomous and borrows top level intentions from parental authority. And homo sapiens is a domesticated hominid.
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Actually a chimp will not do very well if separated from its chimp society. We humans do remarkably well, mostly thanks to our capacity for abstract thinking and long childhood. We do quite ok even if we move across continents in adult life.This is what I meant by adaptability.
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I can also add that packs of wild dogs, separated from their human masters, are the most effective and dangerous hunters in the jungle.
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