I learned recently that dogs have been found to have mutations that are equivalent to a genetic mutation in humans that would make a person more sociable and less intelligent.
I read about that too.  I wonder why that is?
It's an interesting new discovery. But unfortunately the origin of the domestic dog still isn't clear.
dp you think humans can be selectively bred like dogs?  Maybe thats why.
an owned dog, as some dingoes do when they join human families. Although the dingo exists in the wild, it associates with humans, but has not been selectively bred similarly to other domesticated animals. Therefore, its status as a domestic animal is not clear. Whether the dingo was a wild or domesticated species was not clarified from Meyer's original description, which translated from the German language ambiguously reads:
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team of researchers from China and Sweden postulates that humans may have domesticated dogs from wolves as recently as 15,000 years ago. They found that, while most dogs share a common gene pool, genetic diversity is highest in East Asia, suggesting dogs have been domesticated there the longest. Genetic research suggests that all domestic dogs worldwide may have originated from possibly three female wolves.
The dog, along with the pig, were the earliest animals domesticated in China. Remains of both animals have been found in the oldest Neolithic settlements of