This episode illustrates my hypothesis of human domestication. I challenge the academic establishment's consensus that our species was "self-domesticated". To presume any species could self-domesticate one must ignore completely the prerequisite domesticator. The act of domestication requires a domesticator, the same way a ruler requires those they rule over. One does not exist without the other.
Understand that every domesticated species on earth was domesticated by humans. And for one purpose to serve humans as beast of burden, as food, or both.
Who domesticated the human species? Other humans of course. An intellectually honest examination of history makes this clear. The tyrannical human as the domesticator becomes blatantly obvious.
In my assessment, human domestication was the result of Intraspecific Domination. Which is my term for an aggressive escalation of intraspecific competition.
Domestication syndrome refers to epigenetic changes in the genetic expression of a species. Changes that alter the phenotype of an organism. Intraspecific Domination literally fractured the human species. We no longer resemble our original genetic expression. This schism transformed "Homo sapiens" into two maladapted subspecies. Homo sapiens are now, for the most part, virtually extinct. Consequently, we need a more accurate descriptive terminology. So I will call these two subsets, Homo Domesticus and Homo Dominus.
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