One could say that ants have a global population, need mainly only consider other ants and have way more other species adapt too them rather than them adapting to others. The kind of arguments that would “disqualify” a weird kind of species can be used to make checks whether a conception of domination past muster.
For example the earth is not 100% covered in cities (human nests). In that way one could say that humans are only in very small localised areas. Domesticating cows or dogs is somewhat tame compared to how ants harvest resources from other species.
Because of reproductive compatiblity other human species were more of a subspecies. Domination via direct competition is useful for comparin species that share ecological niches. If a species is going to further speciate they are in such direct comparability. But for species that occupy different niches it might not make sense to call one of them dominant even if one of them was way more complex than the other.
Humans do have outgroup hate behaviours which can lead to stuff like burning a competing village. But humans do not have a sense that they should try to drive bears or lions into extinction.
Culture also doesn’t need to monospecial. We have role for dogs and parrots to live in. We even have jobs for dogs and have given war medals and such. A big limitor on why animals are outside of culture is that they are not brought into upbringing or education programms. Humans raised by wolfes are not especially impressive but we let wolves rise wolfcubs. Chantek was a orangutan which was selected in a an experiment to be brough up as a human. He managed to atleast get to a point where he would clean up for money and use it in a fast food restaurant for treats. The limit to the development was community acceptance as city folks didn’t feel safe or didn’t want to have a monkey walking freely about so at assault/sexual misbehaviour drama he was sentenced to life in prison ie taken out of the human society. The limit probably isn’t neurological there. As he was a working sign language conversational partner one gets insight how that felt. When asked about his conspecies living mates in zoo “Who are they?” he answered “dogs” as used to interacting with humans which he probably saw himself as a person and the usually brought up organisms as non-persons.
One could say that ants have a global population, need mainly only consider other ants and have way more other species adapt too them rather than them adapting to others. The kind of arguments that would “disqualify” a weird kind of species can be used to make checks whether a conception of domination past muster.
For example the earth is not 100% covered in cities (human nests). In that way one could say that humans are only in very small localised areas. Domesticating cows or dogs is somewhat tame compared to how ants harvest resources from other species.
Because of reproductive compatiblity other human species were more of a subspecies. Domination via direct competition is useful for comparin species that share ecological niches. If a species is going to further speciate they are in such direct comparability. But for species that occupy different niches it might not make sense to call one of them dominant even if one of them was way more complex than the other.
Humans do have outgroup hate behaviours which can lead to stuff like burning a competing village. But humans do not have a sense that they should try to drive bears or lions into extinction.
Culture also doesn’t need to monospecial. We have role for dogs and parrots to live in. We even have jobs for dogs and have given war medals and such. A big limitor on why animals are outside of culture is that they are not brought into upbringing or education programms. Humans raised by wolfes are not especially impressive but we let wolves rise wolfcubs. Chantek was a orangutan which was selected in a an experiment to be brough up as a human. He managed to atleast get to a point where he would clean up for money and use it in a fast food restaurant for treats. The limit to the development was community acceptance as city folks didn’t feel safe or didn’t want to have a monkey walking freely about so at assault/sexual misbehaviour drama he was sentenced to life in prison ie taken out of the human society. The limit probably isn’t neurological there. As he was a working sign language conversational partner one gets insight how that felt. When asked about his conspecies living mates in zoo “Who are they?” he answered “dogs” as used to interacting with humans which he probably saw himself as a person and the usually brought up organisms as non-persons.