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Jun 2, 2016 · The question, ‘Where do domestic dogs come from?’, has vexed scholars for a very long time. Some argue that humans first domesticated wolves in Europe, while others claim this happened in Central Asia or China. A new paper, published in Science, suggests that all these claims may be right.
Apr 24, 2018 · The 2010 Census in the U. S. revealed that more households had dogs than had children at home, with an aging population and fewer humans having children—but dogs matter. And for some people...
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Mar 3, 2020 · The domestic dog, as a highly successful domestication model, is well known as a favored human companion. Exploring its domestication history should provide great insight into our understanding of the prehistoric development of human culture and productivity.
- Zhe Zhang, Saber Khederzadeh, Yan Li
- 2020
The answer isn’t simple, as domestication is a complicated evolutionary and cultural process that leads to a symbiotic relationship (Zeder, 2012). We would expect advantages for both species –...
Animal domestication is partly tied to human domestication, or the human shift from hunter-gatherer to farmer. Though hunter-gatherers worked with domesticated dogs long before human domestication, later on, farmers saw the benefit of keeping livestock.
- Jane Mcgrath
Apr 12, 2010 · The “Domestication Hypothesis” asserts that during domestication dogs evolved an inherent sensitivity to human gestures that their non-domesticated counterparts do not share. According to this view, sensitivity to human cues is present in dogs at an early age and shows little evidence of acquisition during ontogeny.
Oct 19, 2023 · Much of how we domesticated dogs has been inferred from present dogs and their behavior, as well as archaeological and genetic evidence. However, it’s been harder to determine where and when this happened. The time range that scientists quarrel over spans 32,000 years ago to 10,000 years ago.
