Sentences with phrase «earliest domesticated dogs»

That earlier work found more genetic diversity in East Asian dog breeds, indicating that the breeds are older and probably represent the earliest domesticated dogs.

Not exact matches

When talking about the reasons for domesticating animals, why assume that dogs were not eaten by early humans (28 May, p 32)?

In fact, since domesticated dogs soon reach sexual maturity and reproduce rapidly, an early human family would have been overrun by a pack of carnivores if some puppies were not culled.

When talking about the reasons for domesticating animals, why assume that dogs were not eaten by early humans (28 May,...

The Maya cultivated many plants for food, but it has long been believed that they only kept one domesticated animal — dogs — for food during the early flourishing of their civilization.

«Dogs may have been domesticated much earlier than is generally believed,» says Love Dalén of the Swedish Museum of Natural History.

The results suggest that dogs could have been domesticated as early as 40,000 years ago.

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.

The earliest confirmed domesticated dog in China was found in the early Neolithic (7000 — 5800 BCE) Jiahu site in Henan Province.

The latest archaeological evidence suggests that dogs were domesticated as early as 26,000 years ago.

It's no wonder that many dogs continue to serve a similar purpose to the first domesticated breeds that served as hunting partners for early people.

Dogs and canines were domesticated between 10,000 and 35,000 years ago through selective breeding, suggesting the earliest dogs presumably arose once we, humans, were still searching and gathering, way before the appearance of agricultDogs and canines were domesticated between 10,000 and 35,000 years ago through selective breeding, suggesting the earliest dogs presumably arose once we, humans, were still searching and gathering, way before the appearance of agricultdogs presumably arose once we, humans, were still searching and gathering, way before the appearance of agriculture.