Another comment: I searched through the Leakey book, but did not see anything dealing with the idea that early humans were forager/scavengers, not gatherer/hunters. That distinction in particular was what I was looking for. The vegetarian connection that undercuts the human as biologically programmed to kill.

Layla: I am not sure that I agree that naming domesticates. It is more a way to acknowledge the concrete particular of another, rather than subsuming them under some general genus. So instead of thinking of your cat as “cat” as if it is some generic representation of all cats without its own individual personality, traits, etc., we name the cat to acknowledge its own concrete particularity.

I don’t see that as domestication. I disagree with John Zerzan on language.