Recent stories about signs of domestication in urban raccoons made me wonder why snout shortening is associated with domestication.
This article gives a brief account of one possible explanation, the neural crest domestication syndrome hypothesis, and links to a scholarly article on the topic.
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The shorter faces of these city-dwelling trash bandits offer a telltale sign of domestication and line up with a leading hypothesis about animals that adapt to human-dominated environments, according to a new study