Scleral appearance is not a correlate of domestication in mammals

Abstract excerpt

Numerous hypotheses try to explain the unusual appearance of the human eye with its bright sclera and transparent conjunctiva and how it could have evolved from a dark-eyed phenotype, as is present in many non-human primates. Recently, it has been argued that pigmentation defects induced by self-domestication may have led to bright-eyed ocular phenotypes in humans and some other primate lineages, such as marmosets...

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• Animals, Domestic
• Breeding
• Dog Diseases
• Hair Color
• melanin and skin pigmentation
• Mutation
• Phenotype
• Selection, Genetic

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Literature Corpus work

80f03f89-018a-50bc-8d9e-3d13cbc93de8

DOI

10.1101/2023.02.27.530332