Teeth, language and racial origins, page-1590

Well sure, that may be an aspect of a degree of our success, if it can be called success, but it's only a small part of the story.

So an absolute, NO from you is a bit heavy.

There are many animals that have very rich and complex social interactions and relatively long child rearing regimes, but it did not send them down our path.

Humans are what they are because it was their path, their destiny. The social and developmental mechanics may have been just as subjected to the cause as was the human animal.

I doubt we are just an accidental product of environmental forces when we stand in such contrast to the rest of nature.

Now you might say our behaviour precludes us being anything but an animal, but we are so very recent that it's too early to make that call. Give us another 1000 years or so, which is a geological blink. Our progress is so astonishingly rapid from cave to city, from family group to a struggling attempt at a global society.