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Village dogs match pet dogs in reading human facial expressions [PDF]
PeerJ, 2023 Most studies on dogs’ cognitive skills in understanding human communication have been conducted on pet dogs, making them a role model for the species. However, pet dogs are just a minor and particular sample of the total dog world population, which would
Martina Lazzaroni +6 more
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Chapter 3 Conceptualizing re-domestication [PDF]
, 2023 Chapter 3: This chapter takes an in-depth look at the notion of re-domestication and fills a theoretical gap by proposing a sound and empirically supported conceptualization.
Röser, Jutta, Peil, Corinna
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The Landscape of Long Non-Coding RNAs Provides Insights Into the Domestication and Improvement of Pear Fruit. [PDF]
Adv Sci (Weinh)This study reveals that long non‐coding RNAs represent important regulatory components underlying pear domestication and improvement. Integrative multi‐omics analyses identify selected lncRNAs associated with fruit traits, while functional validation uncovers a lignin‐related lncRNA, lncRNA‐pys, that promotes lignin accumulation.
Song B +9 more
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A genetic perspective on the domestication continuum [PDF]
, 2018 For the sake of simplicity, genetic studies have generally modelled domestication within a framework of strong bottlenecks (also called founder events), reproductive isolation between wild and domestic populations and strong artificial selection. New DNA
LARSON, G, FRANTZ, LAF
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Differences in persistence between dogs and wolves in an unsolvable task in the absence of humans [PDF]
PeerJ, 2018 Despite being closely related, dogs perform worse than wolves in independent problem-solving tasks. These differences in problem-solving performance have been attributed to dogs’ greater reliance on humans, who are usually present when problem-solving ...
Akshay Rao +4 more
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Perceived reward attainability may underlie dogs’ responses in inequity paradigms
Scientific Reports, 2023 Dogs have repeatedly been shown to give their paw to an experimenter more times for no reward when a rewarded conspecific partner is absent than when a rewarded conspecific is present, thereby showing inequity aversion.
Jim McGetrick +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Oxytocin (OT) promotes pro-sociality, bonding, and cooperation in a variety of species. Measuring oxytocin metabolite (OTM) concentrations in urine or saliva provides intriguing opportunities to study human and animal behaviour with minimal disturbance ...
G. Wirobski +4 more
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iScience, 2023 Summary: Domestication has altered dogs’ conspecific social organization compared to their closest, non-domesticated relatives, gray wolves. Wolves live in packs whose survival depends on coordinated behavior, but dogs rely less on conspecifics, which ...
Gwendolyn Wirobski +5 more
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Investigating Indirect and Direct Reputation Formation in Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Reputation is a key component in social interactions of group-living animals and appears to play a role in the establishment of cooperation. Animals can form a reputation of an individual by directly interacting with them or by observing them interact ...
Hoi-Lam Jim +6 more
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Reconsidering domestication from a process archaeology perspective [PDF]
, 2021 Process philosophy offers a metaphysical foundation for domestication studies. This grounding is especially important given the European colonialist origin of ‘domestication’ as a term and 19th century cultural project.
Allaby, R +84 more
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