Sentences with phrase «first domesticated dogs»

About 15,000 years ago, according to anthropological records, the first domesticated dogs are noticed.

In the thousands of years since humans first domesticated dogs we have genetically manipulated them to socialize easily and to show friendliness almost indiscriminately.

In fact, some of the first domesticated dogs were likely bred to help assist humans in capturing and killing game for food.

«We find a clear pattern of genetic diversity focused on central Asia, suggesting the first domesticated dogs came from this region.»

Since those dogs lived thousands of years after domestication, the findings suggest the first domesticated dogs were no better equipped to digest starch than wolves were.

Ludwig Rutimeyer, a Swiss naturalist, named the first domesticated dog canis familiaris palustris, or the Peat Dog.

Not exact matches

This peaceful interaction could be similar to how dogs were first domesticated by humans.

The find may shed light on why dogs were domesticated in the first place.

The finding may help explain why people domesticated dogs in the first place: to put them to work.

Dogs have the distinction of being the first animal humans domesticated — and the only one before the advent of agriculture.

Dogs were the first thing humans domesticated — before any plant, before any other animal.

Considering how long it took for dogs to be domesticated — the oldest doglike skeletal remains were found in central Russia and date to 15,000 years ago, perhaps a million years after the first wolves appeared — the foxes settled down quickly.

In May, Columbia University Medical Center pathologist W. Ian Lipkin and his colleagues identified a hepatitis C — like virus in dogs for the first time, suggesting the disease may have jumped to humans through contact with man's best friend 500 to 1,000 years ago, long after dogs were first domesticated.

The Natufians were among the first people known to domesticate animals — dogs and hogs — and may have been the first to transition to farming.

Previous research had established the wolf as the ancestor of today's dog, but when and where humans first domesticated the animals remained unclear.

Because the East Asian group displayed the greatest genetic diversity, the scientists posit that dogs were domesticated there first.

«As the first species to be domesticated, dogs have a very ancient and very profound link to humans that affected both of us.»

Researchers say dogs were domesticated first in Europe from a lineage of gray wolves that no longer exists

Boyko's team broke new ground by analysing DNA from so - called village dogs, which have lived alongside humans worldwide since dogs were first domesticated some 15,000 years ago.

That dogs evolved from gray wolves is well accepted but there's much debate about where and when man's best friend was first domesticated.

It is known that the dog was the first domesticated species.

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Co-author Paul Jones of The Waltham Centre for Pet Nutrition, UK, said: «It's interesting to know the answer to the question of where dogs were first domesticated and this paper goes some way to giving us an answer.»

The first group of people that don't like domesticated dogs are the animal rights activists.

Each of these breeds started in the past 200 - 300 years, and their founders must have included dogs that trace back to the same male ancestors deeper in dog evolutionary time, stretching all the way back to when dogs were first domesticated in Central Asia about 15,000 years ago.

Scientists at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York were the first to have a more definitive answer to the question of when dogs became domesticated.

The first dogs domesticated by man were used for two primary purposes — hunting and sledding.

The dog was the first species to be domesticated by man and scientists estimate that this happened sometime around 9,000 years ago.

Another thing that's somewhat unclear is where and when dogs were first domesticated.

These dogs were thought to be the first domesticated breed in the Americas and wild specimens still exist.

The relationship between people and dogs goes back at least 15,000 years, making dogs potentially the first animal to be domesticated.

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.

This lineage may show that humans began selective breeding of dogs soon after first domesticating the wild ancestors of our family pet.

The Dingo is a wild dog native to Australia; evidence suggests that he has never been entirely domesticated, although there are some instances of Dingoes being tamed - hence the Red Heeler coming into existence in the first place!

While dogs first began to be domesticated approximately 27,000 — 40,000 years ago, according to a recent Smithsonian article, domesticated cats have only been hanging around humans for approximately 5,300 years — a blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things.

Experts agree that this instinct to chase and fetch is already within the very nature of dogs even before they were first domesticated and trained by man to be their companions in hunting trips.

Dogs were first domesticated more than 10,000 years ago [1 - 4] although exactly when and where is still debated.

Dogs are considered to be the first animal domesticated by humans.

Studies have indicated that dogs are the oldest domesticated species, and likely originated even well before their first appearance in the archeological record 15,000 years ago where, the initial change to the diagnostic phenotype of domestic dogs was perhaps due in part to selection pressures associated with the transition from hunter gatherer to more sedentary lifestyles.

From archeological findings, it is known that the first dog (Canis familiaris) domesticated by humans was in fact a wolf (Canis lupus).

First, in comparison to dogs, cats have not been domesticated for that long.

To make the story short, dogs were the very first domesticated pet for humans.

First, we need to teach people that no dog is born to be a killer — we eliminated that need when we domesticated them, so they no longer have to hunt to survive.

The genetic analysis of Peter Savolainen of the Royal Institute of Technology in Sweden has placed the origins of domesticated dogs — and those of the first dog — in East Asia.

He's a mindless killing machine, but in a way, his animal instincts made him feel like a domesticated dog turned feral whose circumstances forced him to become a creature that disembowels first and asks questions later (assuming, of course, he can even complete full sentences).

In the land where the Brothers Grimm once filled folk with fear of the Big Bad Wolf, but which the newest science now claims is the single geographic origin of domesticated dogs, our beloved companions, one can only expect the news of the first wild - born litter of wolf cubs to meet with mixed reviews.