Infanticide and Human Self Domestication.

See Harris ([12] chapter 13) for data on indirect infanticide in modern societies and Hausfater and Hrdy ([16]) on infanticide in animals and humans. Keywords: human self domestication; infanticide; pleistocene; reactive aggression; violence EN human self domestication infanticide pleistocene reactive aggression violence N.PAG N.PAG 5 05/08/21 20210505 NES 210505 Introduction The notion of domestication has played a role in attempts to understand human evolution going right back to Darwin ([8]) (see Hare, [10]). Hare ([10]) lays out his account in "Survival of the Friendliest" and Wrangham has done much of the recent work on HSD; see Wrangham ([31]) and references there. Evidence On Infanticide And Child Homicide In The Pleistocene Empirical evidence of infanticide has been documented in both human societies and in non-humans. [Extracted from the article]