ReviewJournal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution2022
The mammalian brain under domestication: Discovering patterns after a century of old and new analyses.
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- One Health, Two Species: Linking Domestication to Cognitive Aging in Dogs and Humans.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Slowly but Surely: Larger Brains Improve Immature Survival in Primates.American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- Experimental demonstration of allometric invariance of plant response to density over the course of wheat domestication.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- From wild to domestic and in between: how domestication and feralization changed the morphology of rabbits.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Welfare of American mink, red and Arctic foxes, raccoon dog and chinchilla kept for fur production.EFSA journal. European Food Safety Authority · 2025Article
- The domestication of the wolf larynx-testing the neural crest connection.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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- Long-term impacts of captivity on skull morphology and endocranial volume in a marsupial carnivore.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
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- Goldfish phenomics reveals commonalities and a lack of universality in the domestication process for ornamentation.Evolution letters · 2024Article
- Breed function and behaviour correlate with endocranial volume in domestic dogs.Biology letters · 2024Article
- How domestication, feralization and experience-dependent plasticity affect brain size variation inRoyal Society open science · 2024Article
- Association of tameness and sociability but no sign of domestication syndrome in mice selectively bred for active tameness.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2024Article
- Cranial form differences in goats by breed and domestic status.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Domestication effect of reduced brain size is reverted when mink become feral.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- The Australasian dingo archetype: de novo chromosome-length genome assembly, DNA methylome, and cranial morphology.GigaScience · 2023Article
- The Australasian dingo archetype:bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- The mammalian brain under domestication: Discovering patterns after a century of old and new analyses.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2022Review
- Cranial shape variation in domestication: A pilot study on the case of rabbits.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2022Review
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Abstract
Comparisons of wild and domestic populations have established brain reduction as one of the most consistent patterns correlated with domestication. Over a century of scholarly work has been devoted to this subject, and yet, new data continue to foster its debate. Current arguments, both for and against the validity of brain reduction occurring in domestic taxa, have repeatedly cited a small set of reviews on this subject. The original works, their sampling, methodological details, and nuances of results that would be key to establishing validity, particularly in light of new data, have not been investigated. To facilitate and encourage a more informed discussion, we present a comprehensive review of original brain reduction literature for four mammalian clades: Artiodactyla, Perissodactyla, Carnivora, and Glires. Among these are studies that generated the most cited brain reduction values in modern domestication literature. In doing so, we provide a fairer stage for the critique of traits associated with domestication. We conclude that while brain reduction magnitudes may contain error, empirical data collectively support the reduction in brain size and cranial capacity for domestic forms.
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