Self-Domestication

[Tunn11]

Here's one I'd not heard of before. The idea that elephants self domesticated and a reference to the theory that early humans may have as well.

https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-elephants-appear-to-have-been-domesticated-but-not-by-humans

Research article at:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208607120

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[brownmane]

Here's one I'd not heard of before. The idea that elephants self domesticated and a reference to the theory that early humans may have as well.

https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-elephants-appear-to-have-been-domesticated-but-not-by-humans

Research article at:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208607120

Not sure whether this belongs in another thread but I wasn't sure where, please move it if necessary.

From article:
"Nobody wants to wrestle a big, hairy mammal for its milk or risk their eyes for a morning fried egg."



Oh wait, maybe they are referring to platypusses.

 

[Coal]

Here's one I'd not heard of before. The idea that elephants self domesticated and a reference to the theory that early humans may have as well.

https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-elephants-appear-to-have-been-domesticated-but-not-by-humans

Research article at:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208607120

Not sure whether this belongs in another thread but I wasn't sure where, please move it if necessary.

Well worth reading "The Goodness Paradox" (Richard Wrangham) if you're interested in human self domestication.