Domestication as the evolution of interspecies cooperative breeding.

Autor: Mueller NG; Department of Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, USA., Willman JC; CIAS-Research Centre for Anthropology and Health, Department of Life Sciences, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Evolutionary anthropology [Evol Anthropol] 2024 Oct; Vol. 33 (5), pp. e22042. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jul 10.
DOI: 10.1002/evan.22042
Abstrakt: We propose that domestication is the result of interspecies cooperative breeding. Considering domestication as an outcome of cooperative breeding can explain how domestication occurs in both plants and animals, encompass cases of domestication that do not involve humans, and shed light on why humans are involved in so many domesticatory relationships. We review the cooperative breeding model of human evolution, which posits that care of human infants by alloparents enabled the evolution of costly human brains and long juvenile development, while selecting for tolerance of strangers. We then explore how human cooperation in the protection and provisioning of young plants and animals can explain the evolution of domestication traits such as changes in development; loss of aggressive, defensive, and bet-hedging aspects of the phenotype; and increased fertility. We argue that the importance of cooperative breeding to human societies has made humans especially likely to enter into interspecies cooperative breeding relationships.
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