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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionTo explore human-canid relationships, we tested similarly socialized and raised dogs (Canis familiaris) and wolves (Canis lupus) and their trainers in a wildlife park.
Megane E. Burkhard +5 more
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Domestication as innovation : the entanglement of techniques, technology and chance in the domestication of cereal crops [PDF]
, 2010 The origins of agriculture involved pathways of domestication in which human behaviours and plant genetic adaptations were entangled. These changes resulted in consequences that were unintended at the start of the process.
Stevens, Chris +2 more
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The Archaeology of Reindeer Domestication and Herding Practices in Northern Fennoscandia [PDF]
, 2022 Animal domestication is a profound change for human societies, economies, and worldviews. The shifting definitions of animal domestication reflect its varying and process-like nature.
Salmi, Anna-Kaisa
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Integrating the processes in the evolutionary system of domestication [PDF]
, 2010 Genetics has long been used as a source of evidence to understand domestication origins. A recent shift in the emphasis of archaeological evidence from a rapid transition paradigm of hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists, to a protracted transition ...
Allaby, Robin G.
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Agronomy, 2023 The Prunus genus contains many of the most economically significant arboreal crops, cultivated globally, today. Despite the economic significance of these domesticated species, the pre-cultivation ranges, processes of domestication, and routes of ...
Rita Dal Martello +15 more
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Validation of a commercial enzyme immunoassay to assess urinary oxytocin in humans
Endocrine Connections, 2021 Within the last decade, oxytocin (OT) has attracted a lot of attention in the context of various human social behaviors. Besides its importance in regulating physiological processes in females related to giving birth and lactation, OT is involved in the ...
Franka S Schaebs +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The results of current wolf-dog studies on human-directed behaviors seem to suggest that domestication has acted on dogs’ general attitudes and not on specific socio-cognitive skills.
Martina Lazzaroni +5 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Dogs’ increased human-directed sociability compared to wolves may be the result of increased oxytocin system activity and decreased stress responses, but comparative studies accounting for life experience are lacking. We compared hand-raised, pack-living
Gwendolyn Wirobski +5 more
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Making domestication research policy relevant
, 2023 From the very outset, the domestication approach was inspired by an ambition to inform policy debates. This was obvious in early delineations of the approach in the 1980s.
Olsson, Tobias,, Martinez, Carolina,
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Context-Specific Arousal During Resting in Wolves and Dogs: Effects of Domestication?
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Due to domestication, dogs differ from wolves in the way they respond to their environment, including to humans. Selection for tameness and the associated changes to the autonomic nervous system (ANS) regulation have been proposed as the primary ...
Hillary Jean-Joseph +6 more
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