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Jul 6, 2018 · Dogs were present in the Americas before the arrival of European colonists, but the origin and fate of these precontact dogs are largely unknown. We sequenced 71 mitochondrial and 7 nuclear genomes from ancient North American and Siberian dogs from time frames spanning ~9000 years.
Jun 2, 2016 · They concluded that dogs were domesticated somewhere in Europe or western Siberia, between 18,800 and 32,100 years ago.
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Jul 7, 2018 · We sequenced 71 mitochondrial and seven nuclear genomes from ancient North American and Siberian dogs spanning ~9,000 years. Our analysis indicates that American dogs were not domesticated from North American wolves. Instead, American dogs form a monophyletic lineage that likely originated in Siberia and dispersed into the Americas alongside ...
- Máire Ní Leathlobhair, Angela R. Perri, Angela R. Perri, Evan K. Irving-Pease, Kelsey E. Witt, Anna ...
- 10.1126/science.aao4776
- 2018
- 2018/07/07
Before the fateful voyage of Christopher Columbus in 1492, societies in the Americas were largely untouched by outside influences, and unlike the early societies on which Western culture is...
Aug 31, 2022 · Current estimates suggest this relationship began in vain around 16,000 years ago. This makes the dog the first animal to be domesticated by humans. Learn more about the domestication of dogs. We find out about the origin of the story between humans and canines, chart the history of its evolution and understand the reasons for the dog's ...
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.
Mar 2, 2021 · An ancient bone fragment holds clues. March 2, 2021. The history of dogs has been intertwined, since ancient times, with that of the humans who domesticated them. But how far back does that history go in the Americas and which route did dogs use to enter that part of the world?