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ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019

Hypotheses for the Evolution of Reduced Reactive Aggression in the Context of Human Self-Domestication.

Richard W Wrangham

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Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

24 citing papers in PubMed.

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  11. Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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  13. Female cooperative labour networks in hunter-gatherers and horticulturalists.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023
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  15. Dominance in humans.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Richard W WranghamDepartment of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, United States.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Parallels in anatomy between humans and domesticated mammals suggest that for the last 300,000 years,

Indexed as

alpha-malecollective intentionalityexecutionHomo sapiensleveling mechanismreactive aggressionself-domesticationsocial selection

Identifiers

PMID31481917
PMCPMC6710405

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