Tags: Dog domestication

Dog Domestication Begun Because of Leftovers

Dietary restrictions hold the key to dog domestication during the paleolithic era. Dogs might have become man's best friend because they ate Paleo humans' leftovers.

Best Friends For Ages: Tracking the Partnership of Dogs and Humans

When dogs were still wolves, an unlikely bond formed between them and our human ancestors. At a time when dogs were still wolves, an unlikely bond formed between them and our human ancestors - sometime before the last Ice Age ended, or at least 15,000 years ago.

Ancient DNA Shows Dogs Split from Wolves Much Earlier than Previous Estimates

The long relationship between humans and dogs has just been pushed back by tens of thousands of years, thanks to a small piece of rib bone found during an expedition to the far northern reaches of Siberia. And the genetics show that dogs split from wolves much earlier than we once believed.
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