Thread by @cedricboeckx

No study exists in a vacuum, and for my part, in the context of our new @ScienceAdvances paper ⬇️, there are lots of people to thank. [Thread]

Maybe the most important outcome of working on a complex paper across labs is the strengthening of friendship. Thanks @gtesta72! In addition to my own students, I was lucky to work with great students in Milan @MatteoZanella88 @polvere7 @SebastianoTrat and others not on Twitter

Thanks to Adam Wilkins, Richard Wrangham and @TecumsehFitch for putting forward the neural-crest based account of #Domestication, which gave us a concrete hypothesis to test, and to @bharedogguy, for his work and his support of our group's projects

Our contribution in @ScienceAdvances builds on data I was very fortunate to work on with @MKuhlwilm, which we published in @SciReports: nature.com/articles/s4159…

It also builds on earlier work we did looking for signs of molecular convergence across domesticates and modern humans. Thanks to all my students who co-authored this study (journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…), those on Twitter: @Constantinatheo @s_gastaldon @bridgetds @AlmrimSaleh

Before closing: special thanks to @SimonKirby for inspiring and encouraging me to look into the self-domestication hypothesis some years ago

thanks @ESHE_society for providing a supportive environment where preliminary findings of this work were first presented

and to my students who joined me in this project: @AGMAndirko @ptsgmartins @sturm_steffi @Thomas_ORourke