Monkeys May Have Self-Domesticated Just Like Humans Did, Study Suggests – ScienceAlert

Monkeys, much like humans, could be engaged in the process of self-domesticating themselves, altering the course of their own evolution and physiology through the way they behave with one another, new research suggests.
It’s long been recognised that domestication in animals promotes certain physical features that aren’t observed in their wild counterparts. This phenomenon called domestication syndrome has been noted since the era of Charles Darwin and is thought to lie behind all sorts of physical…

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