BRENT: The dog has been a domestic pet for thousands of years. In fact, a new study examines that the canine might have first come under our domestication approximately 10,000 to 15,000 years ago.
Study co-author Olaf Thalmann from the University of Turku describes that the new findings report how “every new measurement of the remains reveals a different story.”
Thalmann continues, “At least a handful of genetic studies based on diverse markers (has demonstrated that the onset of domestication must have occurred before at least 15,000 years ago. Aside from this genetic evidence I wonder, if the domestication originated in the Neolithic, say around 10,000 years, how would other fossils fit into the picture?”
The study researchers follow “Dog domestication occurred during the Neolithic when wolves began to scavenge near human settlements… The establishment of permanent settlements in the Neolithic would have created an environment where sustained selection for tameness could exist for many generations thus setting the stage for dog domestication.”
Of course, this was the beginning of the trend; it took many more years, maybe hundreds, for this to become the norm.
