phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at o:2725 DOI 10.1080/19420889.2022.2101196 The expensive-tissue hypothesis may help explain brain-size reduction during domestication Morphological traits, such as white patches, floppy ears and curly tails, are ubiquitous in domestic animals and are referred to as the 'domestication syndrome'. A commonly discussed hypothesis that has the potential to provide a unifying explanation for these traits is the 'neural crest/domestication syndrome hypothesis'. Although this hypothesis has the potential to explain most traits of the domestication syndrome, it only has an indirect connection to the reduction of brain size, which is a typical trait of domestic animals. We discuss how the expensive-tissue hypothesis might help explain brain-size reduction in domestication. eng Brain size; cranial volume; gut; intestine; neural crest 2024-03-14T12:17:16.805Z LOMv1.0 Author BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Lesch;Raffaela; FN:Raffaela Lesch X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7151-252X END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Kotrschal;Alexander; FN:Alexander Kotrschal X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3473-1402 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Fitch;W Tecumseh; FN:W Tecumseh Fitch X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1830-0928 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Kotrschal;Kurt; FN:Kurt Kotrschal X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7254-4347 END:VCARD BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Kitchener;Andrew C.; FN:Andrew C. Kitchener X-ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2594-0827 END:VCARD https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/scheme https://w3id.org/kim/hcrt/text Textdokument Text LOMv1.0 yes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 application/pdf 448537 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/o:2725 https://phaidra.vetmeduni.ac.at/api/object/o:2725/thumbnail LOMv1.0 discipline