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At what point would you, as a chimpanzee, have been worried about humans potentially unseating you and threatening you to the point of one day being an endangered species on the brink of extinction?

By the point you would have been worried, would it have been too late?

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Problem is this argument can be leveraged to wipe out any living or non-living thing whos numbers pose a potential threat. Other religious groups, races, even sufficiently different cultures.

Who killed the Neanderthals? Were sapiens actually smarter or were they just less accepting of those different than them?

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