Recent selection of candidate genes for mammal domestication in Europeans and language change in Europe: a hypothesis.
Antonio Benítez-BurracoEvgeny ChekalinSergey BruskinTatiana TatarinovaIrina MorozovaPublished in: Annals of human biology (2021)
We hypothesise that these changes might account for the increased features of self-domestication in modern humans and, ultimately, for subtle recent changes in human cognition and behaviour, including language.