The self-domestication hypothesis: evolution of bonobo psychology is due to selection against aggression

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Do friends help each other? Patterns of female coalition formation in wild bonobos at Wamba (2016, background): “…no longer useful due to female resistance, males might have had to develop good relationships with their mothers and other females to attain mating success rather than behaving aggressively towards females (Furuichi, 1989; Hare, Wobber, & Wrangham, 2012; Kano, 1992, 1996; Surbeck et al., 2011).”
Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity (2014, background): “…of no physiological basis for linking ECV with either prenatal or circulating testosterone levels, we have included this variable because of the empirical association between reduced ECV and domestication (i.e., tameness) in various mammalian species (Hare, Wobber, and Wrangham 2012; Kruska 1988).”
Social tolerance and adult play in macaque societies: a comparison with different human cultures (2012, background): “Bonobos have more egalitarian and tolerant social relationships (Hare et al. 2012), and are much more playful than chimpanzees (Palagi 2006).”