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We know today’s domesticated dogs are descendants of ancient wolves, thought to have been tolerated at first by humans as alarm systems but later welcomed as working dogs on farms and in today’s world as companion animals.
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 mass breeding of dogs began as means for cash-strapped Americans to raise and sell puppies during the Depression. Raising puppies was less labor intensive and cost-effective for farmers, some of whom converted chicken coops and rabbit hutches to house breeding dogs and puppies.
Jul 6, 2018 · In North America, the earliest confirmed dog remains (from Koster, IL) have been radiocarbon dated to ~9900 calibrated years before the present ( 2, 3 ), ~4500 years after the earliest unambiguous evidence of humans arriving in the Americas ( 4 ).
- Máire Ní Leathlobhair, Angela R. Perri, Angela R. Perri, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Kelsey E. Witt, Anna ...
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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...
- Brody Wooddell
Nov 3, 2021 · “Around 12,000 to 14,000 years ago is where we start seeing morphological and genetic differences in early remains that are so different from those of wolves that we can confidently say we’re seeing domesticated dogs,” says Perri.
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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.
