By Dr. John Koch Question: I know that modern dogs are descended from prehistoric wolves. My question is when and how were dogs domesticated from wolves? Answer: Some time ago, an archeological ...

According to the study, the initial phase of domestication, occurring between 30,000 and 15,000 years ago, could have been driven by natural selection favoring less aggressive wolves that were ...

It was originally believed the first domesticated wolves appeared around 15,000 years ago in the Middle East. New evidence, however, suggests it was much earlier than that.

Past the agricultural revolution, there’s something of a sea-change in how dogs are found in the archaeological record. They ...

However, the domestication of wolves into dogs was not a linear process but a dynamic interaction shaped by selective pressures through artificial selection and human socio-cultural dynamics. Early ...

In other words, wolves could have naturally evolved into dogs, without human intervention, within the 15,000-year time period of the earlier domestication event.

Animal remains unearthed in Alaska give clues to how wolves were domesticated. By Alexander Nazaryan As the Late Pleistocene ice age drew to a close, people and wolves began to bond. From there ...

There is no doubt that gray wolves were the ancestors of dogs. One controversial question is about the timing. Some authors claim that dogs were already domesticated about 30 to 40.000 years ago ...

Scientists don't know exactly how wolves were domesticated into early dogs, but it's possible that they domesticated themselves by choosing to coexist with humans so that, a new study finds, they ...

Wolves and their domesticated counterparts – dogs – do not rely only on their snouts when searching for a meal. A new study shows that both animals are better able to find food when they see ...