This is very true when it comes to animals bred with specific goals in mind. I'm thinking Dobermans, Pitbulls, Huskeys, but also seeing eye dogs, hunting dogs. In a way they are being reprogrammed away from their original feral "source code" and tasked with things that can be useful to us and our way of life. And because of this their species seem to thrive or are at least protected by us and part of our evolution as well. However I do wonder why some animals can be domesticated and others can't. In this way I'm sure if we genetically engineer a species enough and give them enough cranium space we can eventually get an "uplift" of any species, but it's not really an uplift because the baseline is probably going to be a human brain in a animal body as opposed to a "provolution" where the base brain gets made more human. In many ways that explains the Mercurial movement in Uplifts and AGI. In their eyes they were not given much of a choice about involving themselves in human affairs.