Sentences with phrase «dog domestication happened»

Research reported by Larson and colleagues last year in Science suggests that dog domestication happened at least twice, once in Europe and once in East Asia (SN: 7/9/16, p. 15).

Not exact matches

Although Veeramah and colleagues see a split between eastern and western dogs, that split probably happened after domestication took place.

Pipes» study is an interesting example of what might have happened to dogs» brains during domestication, he said.

«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.

Understanding the physiological changes happening in rats will also help to better assess the biological effects of domestication in longer - lived animals such as dogs and horses.

Meanwhile, it also highlights research showing that the domestication of dogs happened before the emergence of agricultural societies, with around 700 million to one billion dogs in the world today.

Wynne can't say for sure whether the domestication process happened at multiple villages at different times, or if it happened just once, as indicated by another recent study that looked at DNA from ancient dog fossils.

Although this rock art gives us a better sense of how humans interacted with dogs during this time, it's possible that dogs were domesticated much earlier — possibly between 15,000 and 30,000 years ago — and the domestication process maybe have happened more than once.

Those domestication and agrarian changes that forged a union between dogs and man happened long ago.

As for the genetic signatures of domesticity, Larson chalks up the differences between dogs and cats to the intense breeding of dogs that has happened in the past 150 years, not to any fundamental differences in domestication.