self-domesticate

present singular third person self-domesticates · participle present self-domesticating · participle past self-domesticated · past self-domesticated

1. intransitiveTo undergo self-domestication.

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   What exactly is the difference between animals domesticated by humans (e.g. dogs, birds) and self-domesticated animals (e.g. humans, and potentially also bonobos; see Hare, 2017; Hare et al., 2012; Kovalaskas et al. 2021), whose domestication process was triggered organically as a result of internal and unguided pressures?

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