Phenotypic traits are products of two processes: evolution and development. But how do
these processes combine to produce integrated phenotypes? Comparative studies identify …

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

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

Over the past 11,000 years humans have brought a wide variety of animals under
domestication. Domestic animals belong to all Linnaean animal classes—mammals, birds …

Jack Harlan was a polymath. His life-long study of crop evolution combined plant sciences,
archaeology, systematics, genetics, and conservation, leaving a legacy of five decades of …

Migratory birds can navigate over tens of thousands of kilometers with an accuracy
unobtainable for human navigators. To do so, they use their brains. In this review, we …

We propose that languages (and seemingly our language capabilities) evolved gradually as
a result of being engaged in an active feedback loop with human self-domestication. Our …

How does domestication affect the brain? This question has broad relevance. Domesticated
animals play important roles in human society, and substantial recent work has addressed …

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 …