Domestication is not an ancient moment of selection for prosociality: Insights from dogs and modern humans

IF 1.6 2区 历史学 Q1 ANTHROPOLOGY Journal of Social Archaeology Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI:10.1177/14696053211055475
R. Losey
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Domestication is often portrayed as a long-past event, at times even in archaeological literature. The term domestication is also now applied to other processes, including human evolution. In such contexts, domestication means selection for friendliness or prosociality and the bodily results of such selective choices. Both such perspectives are misleading. Using dogs and modern humans as entry points, this paper explores why conceiving of domestication as a threshold event consisting of selection for prosociality is both incomplete and inaccurate. Domestication is an ongoing process, not a moment or an achievement. Selection in breeding, including for prosociality, is a part of many domestication histories, but it alone does not sustain this process over multiple generations. Further, much selection in domestication has little to do with human intention. Care, taming, commensalism, material things, and places are critical in carrying domestic relationships forward.
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驯化不是一个古老的亲社会选择时刻:来自狗和现代人类的见解
驯化经常被描绘成一个早已过去的事件,有时甚至在考古文献中也是如此。驯化一词现在也适用于其他过程,包括人类进化。在这种情况下,驯化意味着对友好或亲社会性的选择,以及这种选择性选择的身体结果。这两种观点都具有误导性。本文以狗和现代人类为切入点,探讨了为什么将驯化视为一个由亲社会性选择组成的阈值事件既不完整又不准确。归化是一个持续的过程,而不是一个瞬间或一项成就。育种中的选择,包括亲社会性的选择,是许多驯化历史的一部分,但仅靠它并不能在多代人中维持这一过程。此外,驯化中的许多选择与人类的意图几乎没有关系。关爱、驯服、共栖、物质和场所对于促进家庭关系的发展至关重要。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Social Archaeology is a fully peer reviewed international journal that promotes interdisciplinary research focused on social approaches in archaeology, opening up new debates and areas of exploration. It engages with and contributes to theoretical developments from other related disciplines such as feminism, queer theory, postcolonialism, social geography, literary theory, politics, anthropology, cognitive studies and behavioural science. It is explicitly global in outlook with temporal parameters from prehistory to recent periods. As well as promoting innovative social interpretations of the past, it also encourages an exploration of contemporary politics and heritage issues.
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