Did things evolve to like to be better because humans like to pet everything

OR…

Did humans evolve to like to pet everything because everything on earth responds in some way to touch?

Touch is nice. All creatures big enough to be petted respond to touch.

Even my fishes like being gently petted (and no I don’t do it a lot, my hands stay out of my tanks most of the time). I put my hands in the tank and they brush themselves up against my fingertips, gently waving through the water.

I had a couple of football sized koi that loved getting rubs on the ridge on their “head”. I also had a tortoise who loved head pats, she was a weird one though. Seemed far more social than any tortoise I’d met before. It was both adorable and terrifying to see her tear ass when I’d visit in the morning. It wasn’t that she was fast just didn’t care who are what was between her and I.