Social Cognitive Evolution in Captive Foxes Is a Correlated By-Product of Experimental Domestication
@article{Hare2005SocialCE, title={Social Cognitive Evolution in Captive Foxes Is a Correlated By-Product of Experimental Domestication}, author={B. Hare and I. Plyusnina and N. Ignacio and Olesya Schepina and A. Stepika and R. Wrangham and L. Trut}, journal={Current Biology}, year={2005}, volume={15}, pages={226-230} }
Dogs have an unusual ability for reading human communicative gestures (e.g., pointing) in comparison to either nonhuman primates (including chimpanzees) or wolves . Although this unusual communicative ability seems to have evolved during domestication , it is unclear whether this evolution occurred as a result of direct selection for this ability, as previously hypothesized , or as a correlated by-product of selection against fear and aggression toward humans--as is the case with a number of… CONTINUE READING
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