Dog-Apes

We're dog-apes. 
This is what I'm processing today.
Other apes suck at collaboration. 
Studies have shown a chimpanzee is never going to look at what you are looking at, a basic that humans need to master before leaving infancy.
You know who actually does collaboration? Canines. Canines collaborate for hunting and group movement. 
A scientific team recorded a hunting group of wolves return to its den to find that the mother and cubs had been hiding while a bear had come all too close to finding them. The wolves examined the bear tracks, conferred, split up into a guard-group and a second hunting group, which then tracked down the bear and killed it through coordinated attack, sacrificing one of their own in the process.
That's wolves. Dogs are not descended from wolves; dogs and wolves have a common ancestor. Wolves live *exclusively* in biological family units. There is no such thing in nature as a wolf pack-- something early scientists blew because they were studying only captive wolves (the equivalent of trying to understand human society while studying only prison populations) and because they *assumed* wolves must form packs because dogs do. But pack-forming is precisely what sets dogs apart from wolves-- the evolution of dogs took the collaborative capacity of wolves one step further: dogs are capable of choosing their families.
And we, are dog-apes.
Being like dogs is what makes us human.
Being like humans is what makes them dogs.