Dogs are man's best friend, but they weren't always the cuddly housetrained pooches we know and love today.Thousands of years ago there were no tame dogs, only wild wolves.
But slowly humans domesticated the large canine species, eventually turning them from predator to friend.New research may shed light on how this process took place between 29,000 and 14,000 years ago — and it's not far from feeding the family dog scraps under the dinner table.Archaeologist Maria Lahtinen of the Finnish Food Authority in Helsinki says our hunter-gatherer ancestors who navigated the frosty terrains of northern Eurasia began giving their unwanted meat to the captured wolf pups being raised in the community as pets.This would have benefitted not only the.
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