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Did Dog Domestication Contribute to Language Evolution?
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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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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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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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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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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Adult bonobos show no prosociality in both prosocial choice task and group service paradigm [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Previous studies reported contrasting conclusions concerning bonobo prosociality, which are likely due to differences in the experimental design, the social dynamics among subjects and characteristics of the subjects themselves.
Jonas Verspeek +4 more
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Self-Domestication and Human Evolution
, 2020 This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject.
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Domestication is an evolutionary process with an impact on plant reproduction. Many domesticated plants are self-compatible (i.e., they lack mechanisms to reject their own pollen), but few domesticated plants are fully or partially self-incompatible.
Lislie Solís-Montero +5 more
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Annals of Human Biology, 2021 Background and aim Human evolution resulted from changes in our biology, behaviour, and culture. One source of these changes has been hypothesised to be our self-domestication (that is, the development in humans of features commonly found in domesticated
Antonio Benítez-Burraco +4 more
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Locus-specific view of flax domestication history [PDF]
, 2011 Crop domestication has been inferred genetically from neutral markers and increasingly from specific domestication-associated loci. However, some crops are utilized for multiple purposes that may or may not be reflected in a single domestication ...
Diederichsen, Axel +5 more
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