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CARTA - Anthropogeny (Audio)

CARTA: Domestication and Human Evolution - Robert Franciscus: Craniofacial Feminization in Canine and Human Evolution

27 Jun 2016

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Robert Franciscus (Univ of Iowa) explains that anatomically modern humans are recognized in the fossil record primarily by retraction and diminution of the facial skeleton compared to pre-modern “archaic” humans. He then describes a promising model for the advent of facial diminution, which suggests that anatomically modern humans represent a ‘self-domesticated’ species where selection for increased social tolerance led to growth and developmental alterations producing craniofacial “feminization,” which itself results in a phenotypic signal of reduced aggressiveness. Series: "CARTA - Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny" [Science] [Show ID: 28897]

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