To follow up: primates - and we can add squirrels and, hey, leopards - had two routes from tree-runners to tree-swingers. One route was to make the tail stronger and the other was to make the thumb stronger. But the Gutsick Gibbon video offered a sideline: leave the trees, become a nimble landbased thief. A scavenger: namechecked here was the Barbary Macaque. We might add the raccoon.
I'm thinking that animals like the Japanese macaques have been watching us humans since we (well, the Japanese) were Denisovans. Cats already treat us like magical mommy cats. Youtube is full of videos of this beast or another flagging down passing cars so that we African voodoo gods can help their offspring.
I get the impression that the After Man future won't be of RETVRN to the Miocene. It'll be of several animal species having selected for nimble fingers and expressive vocals, as they got into our trash and begged for our help. Bears, raccoons, and several monkey species would evolve to lose their hair and winter-tails as they sussed out blankets.
BACKDATE 5/15
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