It's several orders of magnitude more common in species which have orders of magnitude less ability to impact their environment and change the way they live (an

It's several orders of magnitude more common in species which have orders of magnitude less ability to impact their environment and change the way they live (and to humans in the past when we were no different). It is not blind faith to say that we should expect that the different dynamics could be different when the rules of the game are different. Again, if the foxes see the rabbit population declining and can start producing rabbit substitute before they start starving, of course we would expect a different dynamic to be possible.