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Self-domestication and language evolution [PDF]
, 2014 This thesis addresses a major problem facing any attempt to account for language structure through a cultural mechanism: The processes required by such a mechanism are only possible if we assume the existence of a range of preconditions.
Thomas, James Geoffrey
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Accelerating domestication of perennial plants with genomics [PDF]
iScienceSummary: Perennial crops are promising candidates for building climate resilient agricultural systems because they can sustain production in challenging environments and their deep roots mitigate soil erosion, nutrient leaching and preserve soil carbon ...
Renan Souza +4 more
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The (Co)Evolution of Language and Music Under Human Self-Domestication. [PDF]
Hum Nat, 2023 AbstractTogether 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. In this paper, we advance a new model of music evolution that builds on the self-domestication view of human
Benítez-Burraco A, Nikolsky A.
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Dream-Sharing and Human Self-Domestication [PDF]
, 2021 There are many theories of the function of dreams, such as memory consolidation, emotion processing, threat simulation and social simulation. In general, such theories hold that the function of dreams occurs within sleep, occurs for unrecalled dreams as well as for dreams that are recalled on awakening, and that conscious recall of dreams is not ...
Blagrove, Mark, Lockheart, Julia
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Why Care: Complex Evolutionary History of Human Healthcare Networks
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 One of the striking features of human social complexity is that we provide care to sick and contagious individuals, rather than avoiding them. Care-giving is a powerful strategy of disease control in human populations today; however, we are not the only ...
Sharon E. Kessler, Sharon E. Kessler
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Biolinguistics, 2022 Contemporary descriptions of ‘feral’ children generally preclude any insightful inference about the language deficits exhibited by these children, as well as the ultimate causes of their problems with language.
Amy Niego, Antonio Benítez-Burraco
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What made us “hunter-gatherers of words”
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2023 This paper makes three interconnected claims: (i) the “human condition” cannot be captured by evolutionary narratives that reduce it to a recent ‘cognitive modernity', nor by narratives that eliminates all cognitive differences between us and out closest
Cedric Boeckx +2 more
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Human Self‐Domestication and the Evolution of Pragmatics [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2020 AbstractAs proposed for the emergence of modern languages, we argue that modern uses of languages (pragmatics) also evolved gradually in our species under the effects of human self‐domestication, with three key aspects involved in a complex feedback loop: (a) a reduction in reactive aggression, (b) the sophistication of language structure (with ...
Antonio Benítez-Burraco +2 more
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Abnormal features of human self-domestication in bipolar disorder [PDF]
European Journal of Neuroscience, 2020 AbstractBipolar disorder (BD) is a severe mental condition characterized by episodes of elevated mood and depression. Being a heritable condition, it features a complex genetic architecture, and it is not still clear how genes contribute to the onset and course of the disease. In this paper we adopted an evolutionary-genomic approach to this condition,
Benítez-Burraco, Antonio, Hansen, Ethan
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Prosociality and a Sociosexual Hypothesis for the Evolution of Same-Sex Attraction in Humans
Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 Human same-sex sexual attraction (SSSA) has long been considered to be an evolutionary puzzle. The trait is clearly biological: it is widespread and has a strong additive genetic basis, but how SSSA has evolved remains a subject of debate.
Andrew B. Barron, Brian Hare
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