Simulation shows wolves had time to self-domesticate and evolve into dogs
A team of mathematicians and statisticians from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, the University of Tennessee and ...
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Prehistoric Wolves May Have Willingly Turned Themselves Into Dogs
What the findings do suggest, however, is that “the proto-domestication hypothesis cannot be rejected on the basis of time ...
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Evolution of the Dog
The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are ...
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Coexisting With Wolves: Lessons From Force-Free Dog Training
Living harmoniously with animals can be facilitated by teaching humans to accept their wild neighbors by tapping into the ...
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Meet Dogor, The Mummified Wolf-Dog Ancestor That Died 18,000 Years Ago In Siberian Permafrost
"The fact that we can't [determine whether it's wolf or dog] might suggest that it's from a population that was ancestral to ...
Maybe dogs didn't need us at all to domesticate themselves
They may have been drawn to the discarded remains from ancient human meals, and a new model shows tame wolves could have ...
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Genetics of Dog Breeding
The mitochondrial genome was used because of earlier work by Vilà that showed the nuclear genomes of dogs and wolves to be too similar to study their molecular evolution. On the other hand ...
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Explore the Evolution of Dogs at AKC Museum
Discover the fascinating evolution of man’s best friend at ... and stunning paintings that trace the journey of dogs from wolves to beloved family pets. Carrie Underwood performs acapella ...
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A Potpourri of Pooches
The first archeological evidence of dogs morphologically distinct from wolves comes from roughly ... It may just be almost an accident of evolution that dogs are so plastic while cats aren't." ...