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Recent selection of candidate genes for mammal domestication in Europeans and language change in Europe: a hypothesis ...
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Human evolution resulted from changes in our biology, behaviour, and culture. One source of these changes has been hypothesised to be our self-domestication (that is, the development in humans of features commonly found in domesticated strains of mammals, seemingly as a result of selection for reduced aggression). Signals of domestication, notably brain size reduction, have increased in recent times. In this paper, we compare whole-genome data between the Late Neolithic/Bronze Age individuals and modern Europeans. We show that genes associated with mammal domestication and with neural crest development and function are significantly differently enriched in nonsynonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms between these two groups. We hypothesise that these changes might account for the increased features of self-domestication in modern humans and, ultimately, for subtle recent changes in human cognition and behaviour, including language. ...
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110309 Infectious Diseases; 111714 Mental Health; 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified; Evolutionary Biology; FOS Biological sciences; FOS Health sciences; FOS Sociology; Genetics; Medicine; Molecular Biology; Neuroscience; Science Policy; Sociology
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URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.14939152.v1 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Recent_selection_of_candidate_genes_for_mammal_domestication_in_Europeans_and_language_change_in_Europe_a_hypothesis/14939152/1
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Recent selection of candidate genes for mammal domestication in Europeans and language change in Europe: a hypothesis ...
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