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1/10 From @bharedogguy and @randomhouse, it's Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity. I am fiercely addicted to Brian Hare's work and include it extensively in my #whyweholdhands course at @UVA and @UVAPsyc. For example...
2/10 ...I do a whole section on the idea of #selfdomestication in the evolution of Homo Sapiens, and although many have written about this, I'm a big fan of how @bharedogguy does it. For my class, I like to write out my readings by hand, and include cartoon drawings.
3/10 I start out talking a little about what @bharedogguy calls "Like Me Psychology," which is not the same thing as "Look Like Me Psychology."
4/10 From here I introduce the idea of "Tolerance"--the ability to let a "conspecific" crowd your personal space. Tolerance is a big deal for animals, and humans are HIGHLY TOLERANT. Also, hey! There's @bharedogguy, right in the readings!
5/10 Note that nearly all of this is brazenly lifted from @bharedogguy's 2017 Annual Review paper, also entitled "Survival of the Friendliest!" https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev-psych-010416-044201
6/10 Anyhow, it goes on. Here's @bharedogguy once again, finally introducing HUMAN SELF-DOMESTICATION, which means we ought to learn a bit about...
7/10 ...DOMESTICATION SYNDROME, Drawing, as @bharedogguy does, on some of the work of Richard Wrangham.
8/10 @bharedogguy does a great job of summarizing the effects of domestication on a variety of critters. (FACT: Humans are critters!)
9/10 Just to drive it home, we get nifty pictures! I've been meaning to ask you, @bharedogguy -- who drew these? Or where did you get them or whatever? And do you think saying "CANIS FAMILIARIS" is as funny as I think it is?
10/10 And here, finally, I try to wrap things up a bit, with a teaser for how I try to link the work @bharedogguy has been doing to the work of my own, working out the neural mechanisms through which our minds and bodies are regulated by our social networks! Whew! Thanks, Brian!
