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

How does domestication affect the brain? This question has broad relevance. Domesticated
animals play important roles in human society, and substantial recent work has addressed …

The taxonomic status and systematic nomenclature of the Australian dingo remain
contentious, resulting in decades of inconsistent applications in the scientific literature and in …

Within mammals, different reproductive strategies (eg, egg laying, live birth of extremely
underdeveloped young, and live birth of well-developed young) have been linked to …

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

Synopsis “Brachycephaly” is generally considered a phenotype in which the facial part of the
head is pronouncedly shortened. While brachycephaly is characteristic for some domestic …

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 …

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 …

The arrangement and morphology of the vertebrate skull reflect functional and ecological
demands, making it a highly adaptable structure. However, the fundamental developmental …

Heterochrony, defined as a change in the timing of developmental events altering the course
of evolution, was first recognized by Ernst Haeckel in 1866. Haeckel's original definition was …