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Comment
. 2023 May 8:46:e55.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X22001947.

The human fear paradox turns out to be less paradoxical when global changes in human aggression and language evolution are considered

Antonio Benítez-Burraco  1 , Ljiljana Progovac  2
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The human fear paradox turns out to be less paradoxical when global changes in human aggression and language evolution are considered

Antonio Benítez-Burraco et al. Behav Brain Sci. .

Abstract

Our commentary focuses on the interaction between Grossmann's fearful ape hypothesis (FAH) and the human self-domestication hypothesis (HSDH), also taking into account language acquisition and evolution. Although there is considerable overlap between the two hypotheses, there are also some discrepancies, and our goal is to consider the extent to which HSDH can explain the phenomena identified by FAH without invoking fearfulness as directly adaptive.

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