Posted on 01/16/2014 9:01:52 PM PST by Fractal Trader
Dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 11,000 and 34,000 years ago, according to new research.
U.S. scientists said that part of the genetic overlap observed between some modern dogs and wolves is the result of interbreeding after dog domestication and not a direct line of descent from one group of wolves. They believe their research reflects a more complicated history than the popular story that early farmers adopted a few docile, friendly wolves that later became our modern canine companions.
Dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 11,000 and 34,000 years ago but modern canines are more closely related to each other than to wolves, according to new research
Dogs and wolves evolved from a common ancestor between 11,000 and 34,000 years ago but modern canines are more closely related to each other than to wolves, according to new research Instead, the earliest dogs may have first lived among hunter-gatherer societies and adapted to agricultural life later, according to the study which is published in the journal PLoS Genetics.
Researchers from the University of Chicago said that dogs are more closely related to each other than to wolves, regardless of geographic origin as they do not descend from a single line of wolves.
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All I’m saying is I wish everyone would stop repeating uncertified things.
You don’t have to cuss at me. Sorry if I seemed a bit overbearing.
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Study Reveals More Clues to Origins of Domesticated Dog
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3092470/posts
My own take on the 7-day creation is that days 1-5 took several billion years and days 6-7 took at least half a million years. Eden is somewhere in Mesopotamia where humans became self-aware.
I would add that it wasn’t so much a domestication as it was the development of a symbiotic relationship.
So let's get that beer nippin' at his liver!
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Yes. There arguments appears to be nonsensical.
It appears dogs derived from a wolf population 39,000 years ago and they then evolved along an isolated line with periodic outbreedings with wolf populations.
Ergo, they ARE domesticated wolves. To my knowledge, the only other wolf species in that time frame was the Dire Wolf, and clearly dogs are not related to them, but rather to the grey wolf.
Don't be rude. Someday they'll discover that carbon dating has been wrong the whole time it's been used. "Funky Fundies" will have the last laugh.
I agree. Probably much like the behavior of the modern day squirrels, foxes and ground-hogs who congregate around food sources. I truly believe there are many extinct ‘canine’ species which have not been discovered which might explain the variety of physical appearance in modern dog breeds.
No, in fact, “they” won’t. Radiocarbon dating has a range of only 50,000 years, calibration ie refinement using tree rings to find the slight fluctuations in C14 goes back perhaps 10,000, and beyond that other deposits accumulated year by year, such as coral reefs and stalactites/stalagmite reach back a bit more. Other forms of radiometric dating have other, sometimes overlapping ranges.
Thanks for the link. This is one of those scientific articles where the genius comes out in the basic design of the study. Truly fascinating.
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