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The Domestication of Humans
- Subjects: Evolutionary Biology
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- domestication syndrome
- pleiotropy
- human evolution
- modern humans
- neoteny
- auto-domestication
Video Introduction
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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