Sentences with phrase «on dog domestication»

The scholarly work on dog domestication is quite voluminous; below are listed a few of the most recent studies.

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The problem with much of the research on domestication is that the focus has been on how dogs and wolves interact with humans.
Further to your interview with Brian Hare on the importance of dog domestication to our own evolution (2 March, p...
The Chauvet cave puts a nice minimum age on the domestication of dogs that Pat Shipman describes (14 March, p...
The first chapter of «On the Origin of Species» discusses the domestication of animals such as as pigeons, cattle and dogs, and Darwin then uses artificial selection as a springboard to introduce the theory of natural selection.
The results of a second study suggest that soon after domestication dogs began accompanying humans on long journeys.
Prior work had suggested that domesticated dogs came from the Middle East based on archaeological evidence and domestication patterns for other animals.
To date, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia have all been proposed as potential locations for the origin of dog domestication based on modern genomic data, archaeological evidence and ancient mitochondrial lineages5, 7,9,33.
Online News Editor David Grimm talks with Sarah Crespi about reporting on this story and what it says about the history of dog domestication.
Population genetic analyses based only or primarily on modern data are unlikely to account for such complexity when modelling dog demographic history and therefore paleogenomic data from Upper Palaeolithic remains throughout Eurasia will be crucial to ultimately resolve the location (s) of dog domestication.
This is consistent with recent findings that AMY2B copy number is highest in modern dog populations originating from geographic regions with prehistoric agrarian societies, and lowest from regions where humans did not rely on agriculture for subsistence34 and supports the claim that the expansion occurred after initial domestication (possibly after the migration of dingoes to Australia 3,500 — 5,000 years ago) 34.
«This in turn indicates that the domestication of dogs may be connected to the human development of agriculture and that it was on the scrap heaps of early settlements that the first steps of the development of dogs took place.»
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Although the domestication of the dog is shrouded in mystery, many scientists are convinced that dogs developed from wolves that settled on the fringes of human development.
The argument that dogs are designed by their evolutionary history to eat raw meat based diets is riddled with errors and fallacies and ignores the impact of tens of thousands of years of domestication and cohabitation with humans on the physiology of our canine friends.
However, recent research has made fascinating discoveries into how dog behaviour has evolved since domestication and has shown that they not only accept living with people but thrive on it.
Unlike dogs, who have undergone many physical changes since domestication and evolved to survive on an omnivorous diet, cats haven't changed much, and still require a high - protein diet.
Using a combination of rigorous research and on - the - ground reporting, author (and online news editor of Science) David Grimm traces the journey of cats and dogs from domestication (such as it is, in the case of cats) through beloved family pet and into the present - day movement toward personhood.
Domestication of both dogs and cats has likely had a huge influence on their behavior, especially the way they interact with humans.
Pariahs are considered ancient breeds, although it is not clear if these are the descendents of domesticated dogs that returned to the wild, or descendents of primitive breeds from the original domestication of the wolf, which continued to live over the years as semi-wild wanderers on the fringes of man's habitations.
Some researchers claim that dogs are extremely smart because their brains are physically quite large and they can perform tasks that require them to follow specific instructions while others claim that most of this behavior is based on thousands of years of domestication.
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