Posted on 07/18/2017 7:55:46 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Results point to a single origin for modern canines and push back the timing by thousands of years.
Researchers chasing the origin of modern dogs find that canines were domesticated once, between 20,000 and 40,000 years ago.
The results, published on 18 July in Nature Communications1, push back against a controversial 2016 study2 that suggested dogs were domesticated twice. The latest analysis also add weight to previous research that moves the timing of domestication back as far as 40,000 years ago.
Everyone has their own idea about where and when dogs originated, says Krishna Veeramah, a palaeogeneticist at Stony Brook University in New York and an author on the latest study. “Archaeologists suggest one and geneticists suggest another — people are always getting very different answers.”
Zeroing in on a precise time and location for dog domestication has long been challenging because of seemingly contradictory or incomplete evidence. A 14,700-year-old jawbone is the oldest undisputed fossil from a domesticated dog (Canis lupus familiaris), but dog-like remains date back as far as 35,000 years ago. Genetic data show that the ancestors of all modern dogs split into two populations: one that gave rise to East Asian breeds and another that would become modern European, South Asian, Central Asian and African dogs. Yet researchers still can’t pin down when this split occurred. And they can’t agree on whether dogs were domesticated once or twice.
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When dogs were first domesticated, could they train them not to bark at the UPS delivery person?
“Everyone has THEIR own idea about where and when dogs originated...”
HIS
We (right-thinking, non-Marxist people) must make a stand. No trans-gender pronouns. I am seeing THEY/THEM/THEIR everywhere—on Trad Catholic sites, conservative sites, etc.
I read it as, “ancient gnomes,” which sounded interesting. Time to go to bed for moi........
Oops! My bad. I mistook 'ancient gnome' for 'ancient troll'. My mistake, apologies.
Agree 100%. We can choose not to be stupid no matter how stupid the world gets.
They (male and female leftists) first started doing that DECADES ago.
Got real annoying in the mid 1990s.
After a few years, political correctness was getting beat down as people were tired of tripping over words trying to find the right PC thing to say.
Even PC versions of Aesop’s fables became a gag ‘thing’.
All of this crap goes squarely on the culture’s shoulders thanks to the media and Obama starting in 2009.
I agree, don’t play along anymore.
... or dogs were domesticated 100,000 years ago. Or perhaps 400,000 years ago.
http://articles.latimes.com/1997-06-13/news/mn-3021_1_dog-breeds
>> Everyone has THEIR own idea
>> HIS
Good observation regarding gender idiocy — poor grammar to boot.
Since they were trained to alert to strangers, you’re outta luck.
“The Mother of Cerberus”...
“The physical evidence of fossilized bones and skulls suggests that dogs as they are known today first appeared about 14,000 years ago. Domestic cats appeared as recently as 7,000 years ago. Most modern dog breeds are at most a few centuries old.”
Whatever the age of the partnership, I’d suspect that some bright and far thinking wolves decided to earn the rewards of domestication and this agreement lasted through the hunter/gatherers phase before bteeds changed to benefit their Neolithic partners.
Yes, my dog is smarter than I am.
I created a name for it: Lesbonics.
bttt
Any dog owner knows that dogs domesticated humans. We have been trained to provide food, shelter, a bed to lay upon, the occasional scritch behind the ear, and other affections. Oh, and we provide delivery guys to bark at.
That scared me awake. ; )
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