Journal of Humanities & Social Sciences(JHSS)

Beijing Institute of Art Research, China

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• Research Article   
  Exogamy, Rites of Passage and Human Self-Domestication
  Author(s): Zhang Yan*
  
  Early scholars such as Darwin noted that a series of similar trait changes occurred between domesticated mammals and their wild counterparts, and that similar trait changes occurred in humans. Follow-up studies in recent years have further confirmed the findings of earlier scholars. These changes are known as domestication syndrome (DS). Human DS variation occurred over the course of two to three hundred thousand years before and after the formation of Homo sapiens, and is thought to be the result of human self-domestication. The main way to realize human self-domestication has been an important topic in recent years. And more than theoretical explanations have been proposed. In this paper, the main methods of previous research are briefly reviewed, and some related concepts are slightly revised. For example, the attributes and efficacy of selective reproduction in silver fox domestic.. Read More»
  

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