Sentences with phrase «dogs and wolves split»

ANCIENT RIFT DNA from a wolf (fossil jaw shown) that lived in Siberia some 35,000 years ago indicates dogs and wolves split earlier than thought.

Not exact matches

«It provides [evidence for] exactly what we did, in terms of the split between East and West,» he says, and the two papers place the dog — wolf divergence at around the same time as well.

DNA analysis of an ancient wolf calibrates the split between dogs and wolves to 27,000 to 40,000 years ago.

Their evolutionary lineage split off from wolves about two million years ago, but like those dogs they hunt in packs typically ranging from eight to 14 animals, dominated by an alpha male and female.

In May, a genetic analysis of an ancient wolf's rib bone suggested that wolves and dogs probably split sometime between 27,000 and 40,000 years ago (SN: 6/13/15, p. 10).

Dog history has been studied recently using mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which suggests that wolves and dogs split into different species around 100,000 years ago.

They found that dogs and wolves must have split into two separate lineages 27,000 to 40,000 years ago, bringing the DNA and archaeological evidence into line with each other.

Exactly when dogs started to be domesticated and split from wolves is a matter of some controversy.

DNA analysis, focusing on differences between living dog and wolf genomes, seemed to suggest they must have split much more recently — between 11,000 and 16,000 years ago.

Lab work suggested that changes in three of those genes make dogs better than meat - eating wolves at splitting starches into sugars and then absorbing those sugars.