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Oct 31, 2020 · The domestication syndrome. Human domestication has provoked scientists plenty of times before, with some claiming it's bringing us down as a species, leaving us weak and dependent like...
- Bret Stetka
Dec 22, 2020 · Of the ten main phenotypic features of the domestication syndrome listed above, one characteristic is always present in all domesticated species: the feature no. 6—tameness, the reduced aggression towards humans as a result of reduced acute fear and chronic stress due to the presence of humans.
- Goran Šimić, Vana Vukić, Janja Kopić, Željka Krsnik, Patrick R Hof
- 10.3390/biom11010002
- 2020
- Biomolecules. 2021 Jan; 11(1): 2.
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The general combination of traits in domesticated mammals is an ensemble that we will refer to as the “domestication syndrome” (DS) (adopting a term used for domesticated crop plants, e.g., Brown et al. 2008). We list its core components in Table 1. In this article, we will present a new hypothesis about the nature and origin of the DS ...
- Adam S. Wilkins, Adam S. Wilkins, Richard W. Wrangham, Richard W. Wrangham, W. Tecumseh Fitch
- 10.1534/genetics.114.165423
- 2014
- Genetics. 2014 Jul; 197(3): 795-808.
Jun 1, 2023 · An additional hypothesis is that humans possess domestication-syndrome traits and are self-domesticated. Researchers have drawn parallels between domesticated animals and our own species at least since the time of Darwin [ 9 ].
Jul 31, 2023 · Definition. The domestication of humans is not an issue of domesticity but of the effects of the domestication syndrome on a hominin species and its genome. These effects are well expressed in the ‘anatomically modern humans’, in their physiology, behavior, genetic defects, neuropathology, and distinctive neoteny.
Domestication syndrome refers to two sets of phenotypic traits that are common to either domesticated plants [1] [2] or domesticated animals. [3] Domesticated animals tend to be smaller and less aggressive than their wild counterparts, they may also have floppy ears, variations to coat color, a smaller brain, and a shorter muzzle.
Jan 1, 2022 · This discovery was coined Domestication Syndrome, which describes a set of traits that arise in an animal when that animal becomes domesticated. These are traits we see in many domestic animals, they include: floppier or reduced ears, shorter muzzles, smaller teeth, smaller brain, more frequent fertility, higher levels of serotonin, and, of ...
