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Survival of the Friendliest: Homo sapiens Evolved via Selection for Prosociality

Hare, Brian·2017·Annual Review of Psychology
DOI 10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-044201
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The challenge of studying human cognitive evolution is identifying unique features of our intelligence while explaining the processes by which they arose. Comparisons with nonhuman apes point to our early-emerging cooperative-communicative abilities as crucial to the evolution of all forms of human cultural cognition, including language. The human self-domestication hypothesis proposes that these early-emerging social skills evolved when natural selection favored increased in-group prosociality over aggression in late human evolution. As a by-product of this selection, humans are predicted to show traits of the domestication syndrome observed in other domestic animals. In reviewing comparative, developmental, neurobiological, and paleoanthropological research, compelling evidence emerges for the predicted relationship between unique human mentalizing abilities, tolerance, and the domestication syndrome in humans. This synthesis includes a review of the first a priori test of the self-domestication hypothesis as well as predictions for future tests.

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Authors
Hare, B.
Affiliations
Duke University (US)
Corresponding author
Hare, Brian
Venue
Annual Review of Psychology
Publisher
Annual Reviews
Published
2017-01-03
Volume
68
Issue
1
Pages
155-186
ISSN
  • 0066-4308 (ISSN-L)
  • 1545-2085
DOI
10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-044201
OpenAlex
W2531505017
Semantic Scholar
85a93b497c1862a88b7313e5f5dd5d340f4f5b7f
Cited by
444
References
206
Citations by year
2026: 32 · 2025: 40 · 2024: 29 · 2023: 68 · 2022: 51 · 2021: 61 · 2020: 74 · 2019: 30 · 2018: 40 · 2017: 18
FWCI
19.40
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Annual Review of Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Primate Behavior and Ecology
Keywords
prosocial behavior, human cognitive evolution, domestication syndrome, in-group cooperation, aggression, language evolution, mentalization, tolerance, social cognition, human evolution
MeSH terms
Animals, Behavior, Animal, Communication, Cooperative Behavior, Biological Evolution, Humans, Intelligence, Social Behavior, Temperament

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