The phrase "dog domestication" refers to the process of humans taming and training dogs to live and work with them. It means taking wild dogs and turning them into pets or companions that can live and cooperate with humans. Full definition
The origin of dog domestication in Europe with Robert Wayne; Richard Lenski tracks the adaptation of bacteria over 50,000 generations; Robert Services describes the prospects of a new contender in solar technology. (sciencemag.org)
«Our working hypothesis is that dogs and humans probably evolved some of these skills as a result of similar evolutionary processes, so probably some things that happened in human evolution were very similar to processes that happened in dog domestication,» MacLean said. (sciencedaily.com)
Earlier research had suggested that dog domestication occurred in a host of places. (sciencenewsforstudents.org)