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Old June 3rd, 2016 #1
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Default Dogs were domesticated not once, but twice... in different parts of the world, research shows

Dogs were domesticated not once, but twice... in different parts of the world, research shows

The question, 'Where do domestic dogs come from?', has vexed scholars for a very long time. Some argue that humans first domesticated wolves in Europe, while others claim this happened in Central Asia or China. A new paper, published in Science, suggests that all these claims may be right.

Supported by funding from the European Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council, a large international team of scientists compared genetic data with existing archaeological evidence and show that man's best friend may have emerged independently from two separate (possibly now extinct) wolf populations that lived on opposite sides of the Eurasian continent. This means that dogs may have been domesticated not once, as widely believed, but twice.

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-dogs-do...world.html#jCp
 
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