Animal domestication leads to diverse behavioral, physiological, and neurocognitive
changes in domesticated species compared to their wild relatives. However, the widely held …

Altered neural crest cell (NCC) behaviour is an increasingly cited explanation for the
domestication syndrome in animals. However, recent authors have questioned this …

A few years ago, Wilkins et al.(2014) advanced the neural crest cell hypothesis of
domestication as an explanation for the “domestication syndrome” in animals, which refers …

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 …

Pigmentation patterns of the visible part of the eyeball, encompassing the iris and portions of
the sclera, have been discussed to be linked to social cognition in primates. The cooperative …

Domestication process effects are manifold, affecting genotype and phenotype, and
assumed to be universal in animals by part of the scientific community. While mammals and …

Our 2014 hypothesis, published in GENETICS, aimed to elucidate a set of traits associated
with mammalian domestication, a phenomenon termed the “domestication syndrome.” Our …

Domestication is often portrayed as a long-past event, at times even in archaeological
literature. The term domestication is also now applied to other processes, including human …

Comparisons of wild and domestic populations have established brain reduction as one of
the most consistent patterns correlated with domestication. Over a century of scholarly work …

The natural abundance of heavy stable isotopes (13C, 15N, 18O, etc.) is now of
considerable importance in many research fields, including human physiology. In fact, it …