The domestication of dogs began at least 17,000 years ago, marking the first major interspecies relationship in human history ...

Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

Dogs began diversifying thousands of years earlier than previously believed, with clear differences in size and shape ...

Humans have altered dogs through artificial selection, by breeding them. Dog domestication changed humans also, making us more effective hunters and herders. Domestication reduced the brain size of ...

There is a good reason why so many humans refer to dogs as man’s best friend. Humans domesticated dogs more than 11,000 years ago, before we even invented agriculture. Today dogs are popular as pets ...

To explore this, researchers analyzed CT scans of more than 850 dogs across 159 breeds, comparing them with scans from wolves ...

Bones from the turn of the Holocene indicate that humans were feeding canines—including wolves and coyotes—fish over 10,000 years ago, Reading time 3 minutes Who let the dogs out? It remains unclear, ...

The domestication of dogs began around 15,000 years ago, when wolves first started to be domesticated by humans. It is believed that early humans tamed wolves and eventually bred them to create the ...

A recent study found a new connection between dogs and people. Scientists now believe that dog-human friendship began far earlier than previously believed: 17,000 years ago. A nearly entire family of ...

Selection is based on breeding the ones most useful. They don't even need that knowledge. Keep & feed only the ones that are useful and not dangerous to the handler (for guard dogs a vicious reaction ...

I think he’s conflating tamed with domesticated. To me, a domesticated animal is one that can be socialized to humans such that you never have to worry about such a bite (in general, as there can ...