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The inferred tracks of ancestral Ne in dogs show a population decline of at least 16-fold over the past 50 thousand years,.. However, interpretation of these phylogenetic signals is challenging due to the possibilityof post-divergence gene flow between dogs and wolves, One important factor that could complicate inference of divergence between dogs and wolves…This method tallies site patterns for four taxa, compares them to those expected under an assumed phylogeny…We next inferred a complete demographic model for dogs and wolves…Our divergence time estimates imply that dogs and wolves diverged 14.9 thousand years ago…Interestingly, we inferred a divergence time of 398 kya (382–415 kya) between the golden jackal and the population ancestral to dogs and wolves…G-PhoCS produced estimates of ancestral effective population sizes compatible with the ones inferred by PSMC…Our inference of a pre-agriculture origin of dogs…Interpretation of the phylogenetic signals in these genomes was particularly challenging due to high levels of incomplete lineage…Our inferences of ancestral population size…The divergence time between dogs and wolves provides an estimated upper bound... Get the point? There is nothing proved here, everything is an assumption, has not been proved and yet is presented as fact.