Artículo
Did dog domestication contribute to language evolution?
Autor/es | Benítez Burraco, Antonio
![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Pörtl, Daniela Jung, Christoph |
Departamento | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Lengua Española, Lingüística y Teoría de la Literatura |
Fecha de publicación | 2021 |
Fecha de depósito | 2022-11-07 |
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Resumen | Different factors seemingly account for the emergence of present-day languages in
our species. Human self-domestication has been recently invoked as one important
force favoring language complexity mostly via a cultural ... Different factors seemingly account for the emergence of present-day languages in our species. Human self-domestication has been recently invoked as one important force favoring language complexity mostly via a cultural mechanism. Because our self-domestication ultimately resulted from selection for less aggressive behavior and increased prosocial behavior, any evolutionary or cultural change impacting on aggression levels is expected to have fostered this process. Here, we hypothesize about a parallel domestication of humans and dogs, and more specifically, about a positive effect of our interaction with dogs on human self-domestication, and ultimately, on aspects of language evolution, through the mechanisms involved in the control of aggression. We review evidence of diverse sort (ethological mostly, but also archeological, genetic, and physiological) supporting such an effect and propose some ways of testing our hypothesis. |
Cita | Benítez Burraco, A., Pörtl, D. y Jung, C. (2021). Did dog domestication contribute to language evolution?. Frontiers In Psychology, 12 (695116). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.695116. |
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