Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
10970916 Animal Behaviour 2012 13 Pages PDF
Abstract
► Experimental domestication suggests that natural selection may cause a domestication-like syndrome in wild animals. ► Bonobos in comparison to chimpanzees are a candidate for self-domestication. ► Bonobos show similarities to domesticated animals in their morphology, psychology and physiology.
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Life Sciences Agricultural and Biological Sciences Animal Science and Zoology
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The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression
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