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So maybe we're talking past each other, so let me outline what I'm saying a bit more.
When you say "human domestication" I picture the paragon of domestication: the Golden Retriever. The perfect domesticated human is the Tiktok golden retriever boyfriend meme (which is sent to me constantly by women in my life...). Lawful Good, pro social, friendly, cooperative, a strong inclination to listen to orders and follow laws. Given a neutral moral problem, a domesticated human would have a strong inclination to follow the legal/religious dictate on the topic. Picture the perfect obedient son.
Assuming that human domestication is genetic, that there is a rule following cooperator gene complex that can be passed on, we can assess whether humans who are extreme rule following cooperators will be more or less likely to reproduce. Assume that the man carrying the extreme cooperator domestication gene is otherwise neutral on sleeping around, neither extremely interested in not extremely opposed to polygamy.
Under Christianity, following legal and moral dictates will not lead to increased fertility past maxing out single-gamble monogamy for the extreme cooperator. He will marry, remain basically loyal because that's what society tells him to do. He can only have more children by transgressing social boundaries in some ways.
Meanwhile a Muslim golden retriever son who follows the dictates of his society can, without transgressing them, have four wives. He can divorce them according to the law if they are uncooperative or infertile, where the Christian only gets one roll. He can have more children without transgressing social boundaries.
The Muslim ruleset seems more generous to the extreme cooperator on fertility.
Which I don't point out to say Islam produces more domesticated populations, just to point out the just-so post-hoc aspects of your story about Christianity.
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