Did Dog Domestication Contribute to Language Evolution?

Did Dog Domestication Contribute to Language Evolution?

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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 tourettebrewing.com or cultural change impacting on aggression levels is expected to have fostered this process.Here, we hypothesize about a parallel domestication of click here 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.