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Locating the origin of dogs is made difficult by the lack of data on extinct Pleistocene wolves, the small morphological changes that occurred between wild and domestic populations during the first phases of domestication, and the lack of an accompanying human material culture at this time.
The dog is a domestic animal that likely travelled a commensal pathway into domestication (i.e. humans initially neither benefitted nor were harmed by wild dogs eating refuse from their camps). [ 23 ] [ 26 ] The questions of when and where dogs were first domesticated remains uncertain. [ 20 ]
Domestication (not to be confused with the taming of an individual animal [3] [4] [5]), is from the Latin domesticus, 'belonging to the house'. [6] The term remained loosely defined until the 21st century, when the American archaeologist Melinda A. Zeder defined it as a long-term relationship in which humans take over control and care of another organism to gain a predictable supply of a ...
The first wave of dog domestication began between 40,000 and 14,000 years ago. Image credits: Pavel Danilyuk / Pexels. Back when humans were foragers, wild wolves started to slowly adapt to human ...
One authority has classified the Paleolithic dog as Canis cf. familiaris [1] (where cf. is a Latin term meaning uncertain, as in Canis believed to be familiaris).Previously in 1969, a study of ancient mammoth-bone dwellings at the Mezine paleolithic site in the Chernigov region, Ukraine uncovered 3 possibly domesticated "short-faced wolves".
Ancient wolf DNA spanning the last 100,000 years, points to the moment — possibly two moments — when dogs were domesticated. The first dogs evolved from wolves in Asia — and maybe the Middle ...
Ever wondered when dogs officially became man's best friend? Well, it happened tens of thousands of years ago. From the wild to the farm: the domestication of animals explained
A girl with her dog on Wagifa Island in Papua New Guinea, 2007. The human–canine bond is rooted in the domestication of the dog, which began occurring through their long-term association with hunter-gatherers more than 30,000–40,000 years ago.