Comparing wolves and dogs: current status and implications for human ‘self-domestication’
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 Based on claims that dogs are less aggressive and show more sophisticated socio-cognitive skills compared with wolves, dog domestication has been invoked to support the idea that humans underwent a similar 'self-domestication' process.
Friederike Range, Sarah Marshall-Pescini
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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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Disruptive Selection of Human Immunostimulatory and Immunosuppressive Genes Both Provokes and Prevents Rheumatoid Arthritis, Respectively, as a Self-Domestication Syndrome. [PDF]
Front Genet, 2021 Using our previously published Web service SNP_TATA_Comparator, we conducted a genome-wide study of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within core promoters of 68 human rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-related genes.
Klimova NV +11 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Ansell’s mole-rats (Fukomys anselli) are sexually dimorphic subterranean rodents that live in families consisting of a single breeding pair and their late-dispersing non-breeding offspring.
Sabine Begall +2 more
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Human self-domestication and the evolution of prosody
Speech Prosody 2022, 2022 Human self-domestication refers to a new evolutionary hypothesis. According to this view, humans have experienced changes that are similar to those observed in domesticated mammals and that have provided us with many of the behavioural and perhaps ...
A. Benítez‐Burraco +1 more
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Enrichment of self-domestication and neural crest function loci in the heritability of neurodevelopmental disorders. [PDF]
Hum Genet, 2023 Koller D +2 more
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Disruptive natural selection by male reproductive potential prevents underexpression of protein-coding genes on the human Y chromosome as a self-domestication syndrome. [PDF]
BMC Genet, 2020 In population ecology, the concept of reproductive potential denotes the most vital indicator of chances to produce and sustain a healthy descendant until his/her reproductive maturity under the best conditions.
Ponomarenko M +15 more
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Human Self-Domestication and the Evolution of Pragmatics [PDF]
Cognitive Science, 2020 As 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 ...
A. Benítez‐Burraco +2 more
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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 ...
M. Blagrove, J. Lockheart
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On human self-domestication, psychiatry, and eugenics [PDF]
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine, 2007 The hypothesis that anatomically modern homo sapiens could have undergone changes akin to those observed in domesticated animals has been contemplated in the biological sciences for at least 150 years.
Brüne Martin
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