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The Domestication of Humans
- Subjects: Evolutionary Biology
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- Contributor:
- Robert Gerhard Bednarik
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- domestication syndrome
- pleiotropy
- human evolution
- modern humans
- neoteny
- auto-domestication
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This video is adapted from 10.3390/encyclopedia3030067
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. The physiological differences between modern (gracile) humans and their ancestors, robust Homo sapiens types, are all accounted for by the domestication syndrome.
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Bednarik, R.G. The Domestication of Humans. Encyclopedia. Available online: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/906 (accessed on 18 January 2026).
Bednarik RG. The Domestication of Humans. Encyclopedia. Available at: https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/906. Accessed January 18, 2026.
Bednarik, Robert Gerhard. "The Domestication of Humans" Encyclopedia, https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/906 (accessed January 18, 2026).
Bednarik, R.G. (2023, September 01). The Domestication of Humans. In Encyclopedia. https://encyclopedia.pub/video/video_detail/906
Bednarik, Robert Gerhard. "The Domestication of Humans." Encyclopedia. Web. 01 September, 2023.
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