Version 1
: Received: 13 March 2020 / Approved: 15 March 2020 / Online: 15 March 2020 (02:24:16 CET)
How to cite:
Benítez-Burraco, A.; Pörtl, D.; Jung, C. A Feedback Loop Between Human Self-Domestication and Dog Domestication Contributing to Language Evolution?. Preprints2020, 2020030238. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0238.v1
Benítez-Burraco, A.; Pörtl, D.; Jung, C. A Feedback Loop Between Human Self-Domestication and Dog Domestication Contributing to Language Evolution?. Preprints 2020, 2020030238. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0238.v1
Benítez-Burraco, A.; Pörtl, D.; Jung, C. A Feedback Loop Between Human Self-Domestication and Dog Domestication Contributing to Language Evolution?. Preprints2020, 2020030238. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0238.v1
APA Style
Benítez-Burraco, A., Pörtl, D., & Jung, C. (2020). A Feedback Loop Between Human Self-Domestication and Dog Domestication Contributing to Language Evolution?. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0238.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Benítez-Burraco, A., Daniela Pörtl and Christoph Jung. 2020 "A Feedback Loop Between Human Self-Domestication and Dog Domestication Contributing to Language Evolution?" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202003.0238.v1
Abstract
Different factors seemingly account for the emergence of present-day languages in our species. Human self-domestication has been recently invoked as one important force favouring language complexity mostly via a cultural mechanism. As a consequence, evolutionary changes impacting on aggression levels are expected to have fostered this process. Here we hypothesise about a positive effect of dog-human interactions on aggression management and more generally, on our self-domestication, ultimately, contributing to aspects of language evolution. We review evidence of diverse sort (ethological mostly, but also archaeological, genetic, and physiological) supporting a positive feedback loop between dog domestication and human-self domestication that might have favoured the mechanisms promoting structural complexity in human languages.
Keywords
dog domestication; human self-domestication; aggression; prosociality; language evolution; cognitive disorders
Subject
Social Sciences, Behavior Sciences
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