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Letter: Perhaps humans could be de-domesticated (3)

Published 11 April 2018

From Peter Daymond-King, Helensville, New Zealand

I do not find the idea that our ancestors domesticated themselves very convincing. After all, wolves learned to cooperate in a pack without showing signs of self-domestication. I wonder whether our ancestors were domesticated by Neanderthals and that our predilection towards inventing gods “in our own image” is a memory of this.

Issue no. 3173 published 14 April 2018

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