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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Body Cognition and Self-Domestication in Human Evolution [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2019 The term “domestication syndrome” describes a range of correlated trait changes seen in domesticated populations when compared to their wild relatives or ancestors (Jensen, 2006;Wilkins et al., 2014; Zeder, 2015).
Emiliano Bruner, Ben T. Gleeson
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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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Hominin musical sound production: palaeoecological contexts and self domestication [PDF]
Anthropological ReviewIn this article we seek to integrate theories of music origins and dance with hominin fossil anatomy and the paleoecological contexts of hominin evolution.
Gary Clark +4 more
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The (Co)Evolution of Language and Music Under Human Self-Domestication. [PDF]
Hum Nat, 2023 Together with language, music is perhaps the most distinctive behavioral trait of the human species. Different hypotheses have been proposed to explain why only humans perform music and how this ability might have evolved in our species.
Benítez-Burraco A, Nikolsky A.
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Fish as Model Systems to Study Epigenetic Drivers in Human Self-Domestication and Neurodevelopmental Cognitive Disorders. [PDF]
Genes (Basel), 2022 Modern humans exhibit phenotypic traits that are shared across independent domestication events, suggesting the human self-domestication hypothesis. Epigenetic changes may facilitate early self-domestication in humans, since they can be the first layer ...
Anastasiadi D +3 more
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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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Dosage analysis of the 7q11.23 Williams region identifies BAZ1B as a major human gene patterning the modern human face and underlying self-domestication. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2019 Dissecting the BAZ1B genetic circuitry in the neural crest brings out its critical role in shaping the modern human face. We undertook a functional dissection of chromatin remodeler BAZ1B in neural crest (NC) stem cells (NCSCs) from a uniquely ...
Zanella M +15 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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The gradual coevolution of syntactic combinatorics and categorization under the effects of human self-domestication: a proposal. [PDF]
Cogn Process, 2023 The gradual emergence of syntax has been claimed to be engaged in a feedback loop with Human Self-Domestication (HSD), both processes resulting from, and contributing to, enhanced connectivity in selected cortico-striatal networks, which is the mechanism
Benítez-Burraco A, Hoshi K, Progovac L.
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