According to researchers, modern dog genetic lineages must have been established by the Upper Palaeolithic, the final phase ...

After centuries of sustained effort, zebras remain evidence that domestication depends less on human ambition than on evolutionary compatibility. Human history is often framed as a steady expansion of ...

In 1959, Dmitri Belyaev made his way to Siberia to look for the most polite foxes he could find. A Soviet geneticist, Belyaev was interested in how animal domestication occurs — and in what happens ...

You have domestication to thank for some of your favorite foods, furry friends, and even a mode of transportation. But did we ...

New DNA evidence from a puppy skull found in Turkey has revealed that dogs may have been domesticated by humans 5,000 years earlier than we previously thought.

The oldest ancient dog genomes on record all come from a population that lived alongside Ice Age hunter-gatherers across ...

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

It is not farfetched to say that dogs and people were made for each other, although how the partnership between these two vastly different species came about remains an enduring historical mystery. It ...

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Wolves became dogs via cooperation and reciprocity rather than through competition with humans "I wrote this book to remind people that the wolves we often demonize and persecute through wildlife ...