The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our
intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with …

The Russian Farm-Fox Experiment is the best known experimental study in animal
domestication. By subjecting a population of foxes to selection for tameness alone, Dimitry …

Two major types of aggression, proactive and reactive, are associated with contrasting
expression, eliciting factors, neural pathways, development, and function. The distinction is …

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 …

This study identifies and analyzes statistically significant overlaps between selective sweep
screens in anatomically modern humans and several domesticated species. The results …

Background Domesticated from gray wolves between 10 and 40 kya in Eurasia, dogs
display a vast array of phenotypes that differ from their ancestors, yet mirror other …

Humans are unique in their sophisticated culture and societal structures, their complex
languages, and their extensive tool use. According to the human self-domestication …

Selective breeding of domestic dogs has generated diverse breeds often optimized for
performing specialized tasks. Despite the heritability of breed-typical behavioral traits …

The self-domestication hypothesis suggests that, like mammalian domesticates, humans
have gone through a process of selection against aggression–a process that in the case of …

Abstract “Self‐domestication” has been invoked to understand important aspects of human
evolution, integrating physiological, behavioral, and morphological information in a novel …