The scholarly work
on dog domestication is quite voluminous; below are listed a few of the most recent studies.
Not exact matches
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.