ArticleFrontiers in psychology2018
The Emergence of Modern Languages: Has Human Self-Domestication Optimized Language Transmission?
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- Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Shared reproductive disruption, not neural crest or tameness, explains the domestication syndrome.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Toward an evolutionary account of the changes in the human pitch vocal system.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Human language evolution: a view from theoretical linguistics on how syntax and the lexicon first came into being.Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Article
- Domestication Phenotype Linked to Vocal Behavior in Marmoset Monkeys.Current biology : CB · 2020Article
- Why Care: Complex Evolutionary History of Human Healthcare Networks.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- The 4 D's of Pellagra and Progress.International journal of tryptophan research : IJTR · 2020Review
- Language structure is influenced by the number of speakers but seemingly not by the proportion of non-native speakers.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- From Physical Aggression to Verbal Behavior: Language Evolution and Self-Domestication Feedback Loop.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Williams Syndrome, Human Self-Domestication, and Language Evolution.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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