New Study Backs Theory That Wolves Traded the Wild for Table Scraps—and Became Dogs

And yet, thats exactly what happened.

Their research is detailed in astudypublished February 12 inProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

In doing so, these wolves required less adrenaline, i.e.

A Eurasian wolf.© Mas3cf via Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en

were less aggressive or apprehensive, which increased their tolerance and preference to living close to early humans.

These wolves then colonized the human-occupied environments and, from this group, emerged the first primitive dogs.

This is a computer simulation, after all, and not necessarily a true representation of reality.

As the name suggests, this idea proposes that humans raised wolf pups and socialized them within their settlements.

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