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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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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How (and why) languages became more complex as we evolved more prosocial: the human self-domestication view [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyThis paper aims to re-examine the problem of the emergence of present-day languages from the specific perspective of the self-domestication account of human evolution.
Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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Hypotheses for the Evolution of Reduced Reactive Aggression in the Context of Human Self-Domestication [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Parallels in anatomy between humans and domesticated mammals suggest that for the last 300,000 years, Homo sapiens has experienced more intense selection against the propensity for reactive aggression than other species of Homo.
Richard W. Wrangham
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Infanticide and Human Self Domestication [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Erik O. Kimbrough +2 more
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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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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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Williams Syndrome, Human Self-Domestication, and Language Evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 Language evolution resulted from changes in our biology, behavior, and culture. One source of these changes might be human self-domestication. Williams syndrome (WS) is a clinical condition with a clearly defined genetic basis which results in a ...
Amy Niego, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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Self-domestication in Homo sapiens: Insights from comparative genomics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 This study identifies and analyzes statistically significant overlaps between selective sweep screens in anatomically modern humans and several domesticated species.
Constantina Theofanopoulou +7 more
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Correction: Self-domestication in Homo sapiens: Insights from comparative genomics. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2018 [This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185306.].
Constantina Theofanopoulou +7 more
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