Wednesday, July 19, 2017

How did dogs become our best friends? New evidence - BBC News

How did dogs become our best friends? New evidence - BBC News
"Dogs most likely evolved from wolves at a single location around 20,000 to 40,000 years ago, a study suggests.
Image result for dogs mans best friendPreviously, it had been thought that dogs were tamed from two populations of wolves living thousands of miles apart.
...said the process of dog domestication began when a population of wolves moved to the outskirts of hunter-gatherer camps to scavenge for leftovers.
''Those wolves that were tamer and less aggressive would have been more successful at this," he explained.
"While the humans did not initially gain any kind of benefit from this process, over time they would have developed some kind of symbiotic relationship with these animals, eventually evolving into the dogs we see today.''
...The research, published in Nature Communications, suggests even the dog breeds and village dogs found in the Americas and Pacific Islands are almost completely derived from recent European dog stock.
This is probably due to prolific dog breeding in Victorian times..."

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