And we do seem to have wiped out/outcompeted Neanderthals etc. > fire-cooking, rock-throwing domesticating niche Just knowing if that was the evolutionary pre

And we do seem to have wiped out/outcompeted Neanderthals etc. > fire-cooking, rock-throwing domesticating niche Just knowing if that was the evolutionary pressure along the path would be enough for me (even if it could have been another ape or a corvid or whatever - or maybe they are on that path now?) BTW Matt Ridley has the theory that division of labour (trade enabling specialization) was the gradient.