Sentences with phrase «dogs and wolves suggest»
Dueling genetic studies based on the DNA of modern dogs and wolves suggest the fellowship between humans and dogs could have been forged in the Middle East, Central Asia, East Asia or, as Goyet's archaeological evidence suggests, in Europe.
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One set of analyses published in the late 1990s suggested dogs and wolves diverged some 135,000 years ago in the Middle East.
The researchers found similarities in the genetic sequences that suggest that «ancient American and Eurasian domestic dogs share a common origin from Old World gray wolves.»
Not only do black - furred dogs and wolves have the same gene variant, but the DNA surrounding the K locus is also quite similar — and quite different from that of gray wolves — suggesting that the variant was introduced when wolves interbred with domestic dogs.
Scientists from the Messerli Research Institute at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna have undertaken experiments that suggest that wolves observe one another more closely than dogs and so are better at learning from one another.
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).
In analyzing and carefully comparing the genetic information from dogs representing 85 breeds, the researchers were surprised to discover previously unappreciated relationships between existing breeds and new details that suggest completely unexpected breeds to be among the most ancient descendents of dogs» wolf - like ancestors.
The results suggest that wolf - dog hybridisation has been geographically widespread in Europe and Asia and has been occurring for centuries.
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.
«The results of this research suggest that wolves which produced childlike expressions may have been more tolerated by humans, and so modern dogs have inherited these features,» said lead author, Dr Bridget Waller, an expert in the evolution of social communication at the University of Portsmouth.
Genetic evidence suggests the common assumption (based on physical appearance) that the Husky is descended from the Wolf to be true: however the exact nature and time of the first breeding between feral Dogs and Wolves is unknown.
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.
The history of the domestication of dogs is anyone's guess, but there is plenty of evidence to suggest that the herding behavior we see in today's modern stockdogs originated in the time when tribes used wolves and wild dogs to hunt.
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.