Infanticide and Human Self Domestication [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Our hypothesis, which is largely complementary to Wrangham, is that band elders engaged in infanticide and direct and indirect child homicide against the offspring of reactive aggressive adults through decisions during the foraging period of the Middle ...
Erik O. Kimbrough +2 more
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From Physical Aggression to Verbal Behavior: Language Evolution and Self-Domestication Feedback Loop [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 We propose that human self-domestication favored the emergence of a less aggressive phenotype in our species, more precisely phenotype prone to replace (reactive) physical aggression with verbal aggression.
Ljiljana Progovac +1 more
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Editorial: Self-Domestication and Human Evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The human self-domestication hypothesis, which traces back to Darwin himself, has experienced a recent resurgence in interest as an account for how modern human behaviors, morphology, and culture might have evolved.
Antonio Benítez-Burraco +2 more
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Human Social Evolution: Self-Domestication or Self-Control? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 The self-domestication hypothesis suggests that, like mammalian domesticates, humans have gone through a process of selection against aggression – a process that in the case of humans was self-induced.
Dor Shilton +4 more
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The Emergence of Modern Languages: Has Human Self-Domestication Optimized Language Transmission? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2018 Antonio Benítez-Burraco, Vera Kempe
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Targeted conspiratorial killing, human self-domestication and the evolution of groupishness [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 Groupishness is a set of tendencies to respond to group members with prosociality and cooperation in ways that transcend apparent self-interest. Its evolution is puzzling because it gives the impression of breaking the ordinary rules of natural selection.
Richard W. Wrangham
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Did Dog Domestication Contribute to Language Evolution? [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Different factors seemingly account for the emergence of present-day languages in our species. Human self-domestication has been recently invoked as one important force favoring language complexity mostly via a cultural mechanism.
Antonio Benítez-Burraco +2 more
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Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Humans are unique in their sophisticated culture and societal structures, their complex languages, and their extensive tool use. According to the human self-domestication hypothesis, this unique set of traits may be the result of an evolutionary process ...
Raviv L +5 more
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Self domestication and the evolution of language. [PDF]
Biol Philos, 2018 We set out an account of how self-domestication plays a crucial role in the evolution of language. In doing so, we focus on the growing body of work that treats language structure as emerging from the process ofcultural transmission. We argue that a full
Thomas J, Kirby S.
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Molecules, Mechanisms, and Disorders of Self-Domestication: Keys for Understanding Emotional and Social Communication from an Evolutionary Perspective [PDF]
Biomolecules, 2020 The neural crest hypothesis states that the phenotypic features of the domestication syndrome are due to a reduced number or disruption of neural crest cells (NCCs) migration, as these cells differentiate at their final destinations and proliferate into ...
Goran Šimić +4 more
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