Abstract “Self‐domestication” has been invoked to understand important aspects of human
evolution, integrating physiological, behavioral, and morphological information in a novel …

Evolvability is best addressed from a multi-level, macroevolutionary perspective through a
comparative approach that tests for among-clade differences in phenotypic diversification in …

A few years ago, Wilkins et al.(2014) advanced the neural crest cell hypothesis of
domestication as an explanation for the “domestication syndrome” in animals, which refers …

Among evolutionary trends shaping phenotypic diversity over macroevolutionary scales,
CREA (CRaniofacial Evolutionary Allometry) describes a tendency, among closely related …

Domestic animals are ubiquitous. In contrast to the biodiversity crisis currently impacting
many kinds of animals and plants, not a single domesticated species is endangered …

Morphological integration refers to the fact that different phenotypic traits of organisms are
not fully independent from each other, and tend to covary to different degrees. The …

Deciphering the plastic (non-heritable) changes induced by human control over wild
animals in the archaeological record is challenging. We hypothesized that changes in …

Background In horses, the morphological changes induced by the process of domestication
are reportedly less pronounced than in other species, such as dogs or pigs–although the …

Patterns of selection in South American camelids (Lamini) and their unique demographic
history establish the llama and alpaca as remarkable cases of domestication among large …

Comparisons of wild and domestic populations have established brain reduction as one of
the most consistent patterns correlated with domestication. Over a century of scholarly work …