Review of: "Does Palaeolithic Resource Management Leading to Domestication Explain Human “Modernity”?"

Comments on the manuscript entitled Does Paleolithic resource management leading to domestication explain human "modernity?"This manuscript presents an alternative interpretation of human (Homo sapiens) evolution in view of arti cial selection during resource management prior to domestication based on changing methods of exploiting environmental resources (50-40 thousand years ago).This is argued by the lack of rm support in the consideration of a shift in human characteristics indicating self-domestication linked to large mammals during the Late Pleistocene (approximately 129,000-11,700 years ago).This idea is presented in a series of sections that I have revised, trying to disentangle the basic points.I would suggest that the manuscript could incorporate a more clearly explained objective and that the body includes the different aspects that support this objective.Also, the inclusion of evidence that could serve as proof or proofs of concept would be much appreciated.I now describe in more detail these ideas that could improve the presentation and discussion.I nally note that an argument of evolutionary convergence is totally missing from this manuscript, which could be an important idea to support the existence of the same traits in evolutionarily independent lineages.Comments