Zoonotic Diseases in India: A Growing Concern by Mamata Panda

“…Some of the key factors that play a crucial role in the surge of zoonotic diseases are: dense population, industrialization, urbanization, deforestation, and domestication of animals. These factors lead to increased animal and human contacts. …”
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The domestication and the brain: forty years after by N. K. Popova

“…The domestication of animals was crucial for the civilization evolutionary experiment. …”
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A bioinformatic search for correspondence between differentially expressed genes of domestic versus wild animals and orthologous human genes altering reproductive potential by M. P. Ponomarenko, I. V. Chadaeva, P. M. Ponomarenko, A. G. Bogomolov, D. Yu. Oshchepkov, E. B. Sharypova, V. V. Suslov, A. V. Osadchuk, L. V. Osadchuk, Yu. G. Matushkin

“…Belyaev’s discovery of destabilizing selection during the domestication of animals and that this selection affects only gene expression regulation (not gene structure) and influences systems of neuroendocrine control of ontogenesis in a stressful environment. …”
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Nuancen des Anthropomorphismus in Waldemar Bonsels’ Mario und die Tiere (1928) by Stefan Hecht

“…Drawing on research of the last decades in behavioral psychology, neuroscience and empathy, this article renders plausible and analyses sequences of human-animal-contacts, where the young hero anthropomorphizes animals.The diagnosis of a natural tendency of humans to anthropomorphize animals, is compared with ambivalent effects of anthropomorphism such as the act of domesticating wild animals. Under recourse to the literary source possibilities are discussed, how a citical applied anthropomorphism could be understood as way for a better understanding of animals without ontologizing them, and not to confuse alterity with inferioity.…”
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