{"id":5292,"date":"2024-02-02T17:06:22","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T10:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/?p=5292"},"modified":"2024-02-02T17:06:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T10:06:22","slug":"how-dogs-eventually-became-our-best-friends-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/how-dogs-eventually-became-our-best-friends-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>TLDR<\/strong>: <\/em>Discovering Dogor, an 18,000-year-old puppy in Siberia, sheds light on the dog domestication mystery, highlighting genetic divergence, dietary evolution, and the deep historical bond between humans and dogs.<\/p>\n<p>This article is a summary of a You Tube video &#8220;How Dogs (Eventually) Became Our Best Friends&#8221; by PBS Eons<br \/>\n<iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nDt0HKSdRRw?si=WjX6ihMDrqsFZXyz\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Discovery of Dogor<\/strong>: A nearly 20,000-year-old puppy named Dogor was discovered in Siberia, well-preserved but of indeterminate species\u2014dog, wolf, or something in between.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Domestication Mystery<\/strong>: Dogor&#8217;s discovery highlights the ongoing mystery of when and how dogs were domesticated from wolves, a process believed to have taken thousands of years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Genetic Divergence<\/strong>: Genetic analysis suggests dogs and wolves began diverging between 40,000 and 27,000 years ago, with interbreeding likely occurring along human migration routes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hypersociability Trait<\/strong>: A key trait selected in dogs from wolves is hypersociability, the tendency to initiate social contact, crucial for domestication.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Commensal Pathway to Domestication<\/strong>: Early proto-dogs were attracted to human settlements for food, leading to a symbiotic relationship where dogs benefitted from human refuse.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dietary Evolution<\/strong>: Evidence suggests early domesticated dogs adapted to a starchier diet, evidenced by genetic changes enabling starch digestion, correlating with human agricultural practices.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Single vs. Multiple Domestication Events<\/strong>: Debates exist over whether dogs were domesticated once or multiple times, with recent studies suggesting a single domestication event.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Cultural Significance<\/strong>: Archaeological records, including dog burials alongside humans, show the deep bond between dogs and humans dating back to the Late Pleistocene.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breed Development<\/strong>: The Victorian era and dog shows contributed to the development of the diverse dog breeds known today.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unresolved Questions<\/strong>: Despite significant advances, many questions about the origins and domestication of dogs remain unanswered, with discoveries like Dogor providing new insights but also raising more questions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovering Dogor, an 18,000-year-old puppy in Siberia, sheds light on the dog domestication mystery, highlighting genetic divergence, dietary evolution, and the deep historical bond between humans and dogs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","category-44","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5296,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions\/5296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wam.vn\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}