Did dog domestication contribute to language evolution?

A Benítez-Burraco, D Pörtl, C Jung - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
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 …

Genes positively selected in domesticated mammals are significantly dysregulated in the blood of individuals with autism spectrum disorders

A Benítez-Burraco - Molecular Syndromology, 2020 - karger.com
Human self-domestication (ie, the presence of traits in our species that are commonly found
in domesticated animals) has been hypothesized to have contributed to the emergence of …