One aspect in how domestication might have occurred is “we think all baby animals are our babies “ https://twitter.com/dohobob/status/1283139538702000129

One idea is that cause our big homo sapien brains require birth before we’re *done*, the long infancy and childhood of humans selected for finding infant traits cute and worthy of protecting and that extends beyond species - if you’re small and have big eyes we will mother you

Which is why in any decent space UN setting Humans should be the perky, socially adept diplomats who *will* turn anything into a pet if you let them get within 30 feet of it. Unconscious biological colonizers.

Any night I couldn’t sleep I just added to this thread about “humans as biological colonizers everyone is low key terrified of” story and setting ideas that anyone is free to run with cause I don’t really write space opera https://twitter.com/leavittalone/status/1185381108080349184?s=21 https://twitter.com/leavittalone/status/1185381108080349184