Interesting concept, but the article is referring to self-domestication[1]: > Yet he and evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare of Duke University have long he

Interesting concept, but the article is referring to self-domestication[1]: > Yet he and evolutionary anthropologist Brian Hare of Duke University have long held that self-domestication—a phenomenon where wild animals develop traits that are similar to domesticated animals [...]. "Elephants may be self-domesticating" would sound odd to the general reader. Indeed the paper referenced[2] is titled "Elephants as an animal model for self-domestication". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-domestication [2] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208607120 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2208607120