Elephants are domesticating themselves through evolution. They are becoming smaller, tamer and less tusked. This is due to human pressures such as hunting, habitat loss and climate change.
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Elephants Domesticating Themselves: A Surprising Twist in Evolution
Have you ever wondered if other animals could undergo a domestication process similar to dogs, evolving from wild creatures to companions?
Why do animals living with humans evolve such similar features? A new theory could explain 'domestication syndrome'
For more than a century, scientists have been puzzled by the set of shared changes that happen to many animals when they are domesticated.
Due to the existing diverse and eclectic literature linked to
#domestication and
#domesticationsyndrome, our work has implications for wild
#selfdomestication #humanevolution by
#humanselfdomestication and
#islandeffect.
Nutt Los
Hari Tulsidas
Ben Gleeson