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.
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Infanticide and Human Self Domestication [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The notion of domestication has played a role in attempts to understand human evolution going right back to Darwin (1859) (see Hare, 2017). Two of the leading current proponents of human selfdomestication (HSD) are Hare andWrangham.
Erik O. Kimbrough +2 more
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Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023 Significance Why did humans, and no other animal, develop the complement of complex cultures, languages, and tools? Answering this question is one of the most important endeavors of modern science, which can shed light not only on our distinctive ...
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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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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 of cultural transmission.
Thomas J, Kirby S.
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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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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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