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Jun 29, 2022 · Where and when dogs arose is one of the biggest mysteries of domestication. To solve it, researchers have tried everything from analyzing ancient dog bones to sequencing modern dog DNA—all with inconclusive results.
Jun 29, 2022 · To test whether the sampled ancient European wolves could be the actual source of this second component of dog ancestry, we tested qpAdm models featuring the Siberian Zhokhov dog as one source ...
Mar 23, 2021 · Learn about how humans of the past helped build the bond between us and our favorite furry friends. Emily Leclerc. March 23, 2021. All modern dogs are descended from a wolf species that when ...
Oct 29, 2020 · By modelling the relationships in and between groups of ancient and modern dogs, the researchers determined that a 10,900-year-old dog from Russia was distinct from later ancient European,...
- Ewen Callaway
- 2020
Apr 5, 2024 · Analysis of ancient dog fossils and modern dog genomes suggests that dogs descend from ancient wolves and share a common ancestor. Recent research suggests that dogs were domesticated in Asia at least 14,000 years ago, and there is evidence of separate domestication events in different regions.
Apr 24, 2023 · Dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and gray wolves (Canis lupus) share a common ancestor — a wolf species that went extinct sometime in the Late Pleistocene Epoch. Although no one is certain when dogs began to genetically diverge from gray wolves, researchers estimate it happened between 36,900 and 41,500 years ago.
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The study proposes that after having diverged from the common ancestor shared with the grey wolf, the evolution of the dog proceeded in three stages. The first was natural selection based on feeding behaviour within the ecological niche that had been formed through human activity.
