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Since ancient hunter-gatherers couldn’t consume all the lean-meat protein they obtained, a sensible choice would have been to feed it to wolves, to keep them healthy while encouraging them to become more dependent on humans for sustenance. And as time passed, evolutionary forces would have worked their magic, gradually transforming tame wolves into even tamer domesticated dogs or so the Finnish researchers assert, in their imaginative yet science-based reconstruction of dog domestication history.
A Remarkably New Paradigm For Dog Domestication
This theory of how dogs became domesticated from wolves differs from current conventional wisdom, which relies on two competing hypotheses to explain dog domestication.
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Jan. 10, 2021
It’s a charming notion. Sharing meat scraps with wolves in the dead of winter possibly as long as tens of thousands of years ago may have wound up creating man’s best friend, a new paper in Scientific Reports suggests.
Only in winter? No sharing in summer or spring? That’s a twist in the new hypothesis by Maria Lahtinen of the Finnish Museum of Natural History, University of Helsinki and colleagues, which ties together several facts to reach that startling conclusion: Two species in competition over resources – each capable of killing and eating the other – wound up in love.
Our ancestors domesticated dogs by sharing leftover meat during the last Ice Age, new study suggests
Our ancestors domesticated dogs by sharing leftover meat during the last Ice Age, new study suggests
Aylin WoodwardJan 9, 2021, 19:17 IST
Pyrenean mountain dogs guard a herd of goats and sheep in Brandenburg, Germany, 2019.Soeren Stache/picture alliance via Getty
Human hunters bagged more game than they could safely eat during the last Ice Age.
Rather than waste the excess meat, they fed it to
wolves, which evolved into domesticated
dogs over time, a new study suggests.
It s hard to resist dogs when they beg for scraps from the table. The act of feeding leftovers to hungry canines may have jump-started dog