I can imagine multiple conscious, tool-using, dextrous homo species who bear mostly helpless babies and who cook their food. That happened. I can also imagine c

I can imagine multiple conscious, tool-using, dextrous homo species who bear mostly helpless babies and who cook their food. That happened. I can also imagine conscious species evolving from primates. I can foresee someone being stupid enough to genetically engineer a very smart chimp. That's enough to think differently about some animals.