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Oct 27, 2020 · The idea that humans have self-domesticated is, in turn, central to Wrangham’s thesis about the evolution of goodness. He cites reams of scientific studies showing that humans in hunter-gatherer societies tend to have moral standards that, as I read it, require either family or group elders of socially disruptive individuals to impose what he calls “capital punishment.”
But, as Wrangham recalls, Hare's work with the Russian foxes, and later dogs and bonobos, did add a great deal of credibility to the idea that a new, agreeable human psychology was the result of ...
Dec 4, 2019 · A new study—citing genetic evidence from a disorder that in some ways mirrors elements of domestication—suggests modern humans domesticated themselves after they split from their extinct relatives, Neanderthals and Denisovans, approximately 600,000 years ago. "The study is incredibly impressive," says Richard Wrangham, a biological ...
Jan 17, 2019 · Wrangham argues that humans have, in essence, domesticated themselves, and now exhibit the same general character as our own domestic animals: "They mainly have smaller bodies than their wild ancestors; their faces tend to be shorter and don’t project as far forward; the differences between males and females are less highly developed; and they tend to have smaller brain cavities (and thus ...
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Jul 6, 2017 · July 6, 2017 at 12:00 pm. Long before humans domesticated other animals, we may have domesticated ourselves. Over many generations, some scientists propose, humans selected among themselves for ...
Mar 1, 2019 · Clues to humans being 'self-domesticated' Wrangham said that a few years ago, it was observed that humans evolved to be — in some ways — anatomically like domesticated animals.
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Jan 29, 2019 · In fact, Wrangham’s notion of human evolution powered by self-domestication has an ancient lineage: The basic idea was first proposed by a disciple of Aristotle’s named Theophrastus and has ...
