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May 30, 2009 · Breeding as we know it today is a fairly recent invention. For the most part, it wasn’t until the 19th century that people began to keep records of canine bloodlines and to classify dogs into...
Mar 1, 2019 · More recent studies suggest humans may have first domesticated dogs some 6,400-14,000 years ago when an initial wolf population split into East and West Eurasian wolves, which were domesticated independently of each other and gave birth to 2 distinct dog populations before going extinct.
The science is unclear—it was thought the first domesticated dogs originated in China or the Middle East about 15,000 years ago, but a new study suggests the first domesticated dogs came from Europe between 19,000 and 32,000 years ago.
Jul 6, 2018 · Studies of the control region of mitochondrial DNA have suggested that the precontact American dog population was largely replaced following the arrival of European dogs after colonization and the introduction of Eurasian Arctic dogs (e.g., Siberian huskies) during the Alaskan gold rush ( 5 – 7 ).
- Máire Ní Leathlobhair, Angela R. Perri, Angela R. Perri, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Kelsey E. Witt, Anna ...
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Jun 28, 2021 · Dogs have been close companions to humans for a long time, and when we look at the history of certain breeds, we can usually see when they were brought over to a specific place – like when corgis were brought over to Wales – or when they were developed.
May 26, 2017 · An analysis of canine bones from Zhokhov suggests the dogs there were bred to pull sleds, making this the first evidence—by thousands of years—for dog breeding in the archaeological record.
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Jun 22, 2023 · The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to...
