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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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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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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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In Bonobos Yawn Contagion Is Higher among Kin and Friends [PDF]
, 2012 In humans, the distribution of yawn contagion is shaped by social closeness with strongly bonded pairs showing higher levels of contagion than weakly bonded pairs.
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An etiology of human modernity
Anthropological Review, 2021 Following the refutation of the replacement hypothesis, which had proposed that a ‘superior’ hominin species arose in Africa and replaced all other humans existing at the time, the auto-domestication hypothesis remains the only viable explanation for the
Bednarik Robert G.
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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 about human origins. 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 cognitive pre-requisites for supporting our complex social practices and advanced ...
Antonio Benítez‐Burraco +1 more
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Confession and political normativity: control of subjectivity and production of the subject [PDF]
, 2015 The theme of confession, present in the reflection of Michel Foucault since the early 1960s, pursued the same direction of his researches from the late 1970s concerning the problem of government and the studies of governmentality. Under this perspective,
Avelino, Nildo
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Convergent? Minds? Some questions about mental evolution [PDF]
, 2017 In investigating convergent minds, we need to be sure that the things we are looking at are both minds and convergent. In determining whether a shared character state represents a convergence between two organisms, we must know the wider distribution and
Cartmill, Matt
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Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals
Zoological Letters, 2023 Numerous hypotheses try to explain the unusual appearance of the human eye with its bright sclera and transparent conjunctiva and how it could have evolved from a dark-eyed phenotype, as is present in many non-human primates. Recently, it has been argued
Kai R. Caspar +2 more
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