Mental time travel, language evolution, and human self-domestication
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DOI: 10.1007/s10339-020-01005-2
Abstract: Human self-domestication might have contributed to the evolutionary changes in the hippocampus accounting for our enhanced mental travel abilities, and ultimately for our sophisticated language. read more here.
Keywords: human self; travel; language; mental time ... See more keywords
Human Self-Domestication and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis of Addiction: How Humans Evolved a Unique Vulnerability
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DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2019.09.013
Abstract: Humans are more vulnerable to addiction in comparison to all other mammals, including nonhuman primates, yet there is a lack of research addressing this. This paper reviews the field of comparative addiction neuroscience, highlighting the… read more here.
Keywords: addiction; evolutionary synthesis; human self; domestication extended ... See more keywords
Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication
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DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2208607120
Abstract: Significance Why did humans, and no other animal, develop the complement of complex cultures, languages, and tools? Answering this question is one of the most important endeavors of modern science, which can shed light not… read more here.
Keywords: animal model; self domestication; model self; self ... See more keywords
Self-domestication in Homo sapiens: Insights from comparative genomics
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DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0185306
Abstract: This study identifies and analyzes statistically significant overlaps between selective sweep screens in anatomically modern humans and several domesticated species. The results obtained suggest that (paleo-)genomic data can be exploited to complement the fossil record… read more here.
Keywords: sapiens insights; domestication; domestication homo; homo sapiens ... See more keywords
Disruptive Selection of Human Immunostimulatory and Immunosuppressive Genes Both Provokes and Prevents Rheumatoid Arthritis, Respectively, as a Self-Domestication Syndrome
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DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2021.610774
Abstract: Using our previously published Web service SNP_TATA_Comparator, we conducted a genome-wide study of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within core promoters of 68 human rheumatoid arthritis (RA)-related genes. Using 603 SNPs within 25 genes clinically associated with… read more here.
Keywords: domestication syndrome; selection; immunostimulatory immunosuppressive; immunosuppressive genes ... See more keywords
Molecules, Mechanisms, and Disorders of Self-Domestication: Keys for Understanding Emotional and Social Communication from an Evolutionary Perspective
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DOI: 10.3390/biom11010002
Abstract: The neural crest hypothesis states that the phenotypic features of the domestication syndrome are due to a reduced number or disruption of neural crest cells (NCCs) migration, as these cells differentiate at their final destinations… read more here.
Keywords: self domestication; domestication keys; disorders self; neural crest ... See more keywords
Fish as Model Systems to Study Epigenetic Drivers in Human Self-Domestication and Neurodevelopmental Cognitive Disorders
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DOI: 10.3390/genes13060987
Abstract: Modern humans exhibit phenotypic traits that are shared across independent domestication events, suggesting the human self-domestication hypothesis. Epigenetic changes may facilitate early self-domestication in humans, since they can be the first layer of response to… read more here.
Keywords: domestication; neurodevelopmental cognitive; drivers human; self domestication ... See more keywords