Domesticated dogs descended from an Ice Age European wolf
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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1. Some experts believe that our ancestors from the Middle East and other places were drawn to wolf pups and took them as novelties, others believe they used as a source of meat in early agriculture societies in Asia
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2. Another theory is that early dogs were used as helpers for hunters.
3. The biologists discovered a lot after analyzing the mitochondrial DNA of 18 ancient dogs and wolves and comparing them with the mitochondrial DNA of modern canines.
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4. The study's authors wrote that dogs evolved from a now extinct species of European wolf This wolf (which has been extinct since long ago) followed bands of humans who were hunting woolly mammoths and other large prey.
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5. Wolves were starting to be welcomed into human society in Europe, However, the European wolf that was domesticated left no living descendants other than dogs.
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6. many archaeologists and biologists believed that dogs were first domesticated no more than 13,000 years ago
7. they did not include samples from outside Europe because the samples were too recent, only about 7,000 or 8,000 years old
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