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Domestication as innovation : the entanglement of techniques, technology and chance in the domestication of cereal crops [PDF]
, 2010 The origins of agriculture involved pathways of domestication in which human behaviours and plant genetic adaptations were entangled. These changes resulted in consequences that were unintended at the start of the process.
Stevens, Chris +2 more
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Integrating the processes in the evolutionary system of domestication [PDF]
, 2010 Genetics has long been used as a source of evidence to understand domestication origins. A recent shift in the emphasis of archaeological evidence from a rapid transition paradigm of hunter-gatherers to agriculturalists, to a protracted transition ...
Allaby, Robin G.
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Self domestication and the evolution of language. [PDF]
Biol Philos, 2018 We set out an account of how self-domestication plays a crucial role in the evolution of language. In doing so, we focus on the growing body of work that treats language structure as emerging from the process ofcultural transmission. We argue that a full
Thomas J, Kirby S.
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Chapter 3 Conceptualizing re-domestication
, 2023 Chapter 3: This chapter takes an in-depth look at the notion of re-domestication and fills a theoretical gap by proposing a sound and empirically supported conceptualization.
Röser, Jutta, Peil, Corinna
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Making domestication research policy relevant
, 2023 From the very outset, the domestication approach was inspired by an ambition to inform policy debates. This was obvious in early delineations of the approach in the 1980s.
Olsson, Tobias,, Martinez, Carolina,
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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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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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Brésil(s), 2021 Through the series of self-improvement books by Samuel Smiles and other normative texts that circulated between the middle and upper classes of São Paulo in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, we analyze the spread of a social discourse promoting ...
Pedro Beresin Schleder Ferreira
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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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You Can’t Smell Roses Online: Intruding Media and Reverse Domestication
Nordicom Review, 2020 There is an emerging range of self-help guides advising users on how to minimise their interaction with media. The aim is to create a lifestyle and identity that is less media-centred and more grounded in “real life”.
Karlsen Faltin, Syvertsen Trine
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