self-domestication

These results with selective breeding suggest that the natural process of self-domestication can occur within a single human generation.

Human self-domestication, if it occurred, would probably not have exactly the same genetic basis as tameness in animals.

Self-domestication describes theories of how humans developed and evolved.

It has been argued that bonobos (Pan paniscus), relatives of the chimpanzee, have undergone self-domestication.

Self-domestication is described by biological anthropologist Richard Wrangham as being in an environment where lessening of aggression was beneficial for survival.

Self-domestication refers to a theory of the process of adaptation of wild animals to humans, without direct human selective breeding of the animals.

She instead suspects dogs may have undergone "self-domestication" from wolves more than once over history, which could explain why the animals appear and then seemingly disappear from the archaeological record.

It was also argued that the species provides support for the notion that very early hominins, akin to bonobos (Pan paniscus) the less aggressive species of chimpanzee, may have evolved via the process of self-domestication.

The reason is that in many fields of research, close feedback loops have been found in which "nature" and "nurture" influence one another constantly (as in self-domestication), while in other fields, the dividing line between an inherited and an acquired trait becomes unclear (as in the field of epigenetics or in fetal development).