New Research Challenges Ideas about Dog Domestication

Tibetan dogs: origins unknown (for now)

Tibetan dogs: origins unknown (for now)

The prevailing theory of how dogs were first domesticated from wolves is that it happened in East Asia. New research, though, calls that into question.

So where were dogs first domesticated? It’s an open question now, but more studies are being done in an effort to find the answer.

The New York Times has the full story (including a couple who spent their honeymoon collecting blood samples).

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