{"id":6727,"date":"2014-12-18T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2014-12-18T10:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myuctv.tv\/?p=6727"},"modified":"2014-12-18T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T10:00:51","slug":"the-domestication-of-animals-and-human-evolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/science\/the-domestication-of-animals-and-human-evolution\/","title":{"rendered":"The Domestication of Animals and Human Evolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/domestication\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/images\/series\/widescreen\/806.jpg\" alt=\"8232\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><\/a>What can the changes that made cuddly pets from steely predators tell us about ourselves? What do differences such as pointy ears or floppy ears, a long snout or a short one, a protruding jaw or a child-like face, or the timing and pace of brain development tell us? <\/p>\n<p>These are just a few of the characteristics that a convergence of views in the study of animal domestication may tell us about our own evolution as a species in the more distant past. Specifically, it has been suggested that a number of the unique anatomical, neural, developmental, social, cognitive and communicative traits that define our species may be attributable to selection for lack of aggression and to a process of self-domestication. <\/p>\n<p>Join another fascinating exploration of ourselves as this symposium brings together researchers from a variety of research backgrounds to examine these concepts and to elucidate further the possible role of domestication in human evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uctv.tv\/domestication\/\">CARTA &#8211; Domestication and Human Evolution<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can the changes that made cuddly pets from steely predators tell us about ourselves? What do differences such as pointy ears or floppy ears, a long snout or a short one, a protruding jaw or a child-like face, or the timing and pace of brain development tell us? These are just a few of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myuctv.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}