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Monkeys, Elephants, and Humans are Basically the Same

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The Role of Extended Juvenile Periods in Self Domestication

In a lot of animal species, you're born like horses. You do not spend a lot of time as a quote unquote juvenile. In elephants, they also have this really extended juvenile species. Now, why is this sort of thought of as a trait of self domestication?

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