Did Dog Domestication Contribute to Language Evolution?

• Published in: Frontiers in psychology Vol. 12; p. 695116
• Main Authors: Benítez-Burraco, Antonio, Pörtl, Daniela, Jung, Christoph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A 13.09.2021
• Subjects: aggression; cognitive disorders; dog domestication; human self-domestication; language evolution; prosociality; Psychology

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...