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Who Thought Up Dog Domestication, People or Dogs?

by David Tollen | Jan 11, 2020 | Human Origins & the Paleolithic, History General

Scientists used to think Stone Age people domesticated the dog by adopting wolf pups and breeding the friendliest of them, or the most obedient. But more recent thinking says dogs domesticated themselves. Caveman Wolf-Breeding? Dogs were first domesticated in Europe...