No, and if you read what I wrote you wouldn't be asking that question. Of course hominoids prior to Homo sapiens had what could be argued as professions, but the whole idea of profession is one culturally defined, and since modern culture is dated to ca40kya, that leaves "profession" as being something unique to Homo sapiens.
Once again, if you read what I wrote you wouldn't be attempting to make the second point either. See "the difference between the mother and offspring would have been non-observable" in my prior post. The fact is, all species definitions are arbitrary in some way or another, especially when its solely paleontological evidence the definition rides on. By definition, there is a point at which a line must be drawn when the human race originated. Whether or not we can find that line (We most certainly cannot) is irrelevant; there was a first human, by definition.
If you cannot cede this, then you are implying that species definitions are irrelevant (Which, in many cases they are, but not most). The LCA of Humans and Chimps, for instance, was surely different from anatomically modern humans; you must draw the line somewhere. It's how humans work, we draw arbitrary lines to define what we see/experience.
