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Traditional ethological models primarily explain animal responses to human presence through direct operant conditioning, immediate visual threat displays, or simple flight-initiation distances (FID). However, these models often fail to account for complex behavioral nuances—such as the deliberate non-confrontational approach strategies observed in apex predators (e.g., Panthera tigris, Ursus arctos) when targeting humans, or the proactive, pride-driven submission and rule-internalization exhibited by domesticated canines (Canis lupus familiaris). This paper proposes an integrated framework centered on Innate Threat Templates and the Transmission of Trans-biological Thought Packages (범생명사고/지식유전론). We argue that human asymmetric lethality—instantiated via tools, projectable weapons, relentless pursuit predation, and non-nutritional/systematic eradication—has acted as an evolutionary catalyst. Over millennia, this dynamic embedded a complex "thought package" into the cognitive architecture of mammalian species. Furthermore, we examine how human handlers emit subtle, non-verbal biological signals ("aura of lethality") that domestic canines interpret as definitive indicators of absolute alpha status, translating submission into collective pride and social alignment within the human-canine unit.
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