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Mmm, perhaps. I would be very warey of any study of the form "possible contribution of molecule X to high level social process Y", that sounds very far into the junk science danger zone.

Dogs came from wolves, originally. Nothing cute or love inducing about those. They were domesticated because they were useful and the warm feelings came later.

Sheep, cattle. We raise them for wool, milk and food. It's a purely transactional form of dominance. Very few people would profess love for a cow or a sheep outside of maybe a children's petting zoo.




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