Jens Notroff
🐶 Who let the dogs in? And when? Some great new research on early #dog #domestication and genetically fully distinct dogs about 14,000 years ago: 🏺 www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/arti... by @[email protected] for @[email protected]

Humans have been hanging out w...
Humans have been hanging out with dogs for even longer than we thought

Two new papers have shown that dogs were fully distinct from wolves—and companions with people—more than 14,000 years ago.

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Original study: W. A. Marsh et al., Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic, @[email protected] 651, 2026. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dogs were widely distributed a...
Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic - Nature

Analysis of nuclear and mitochondrial genomes from archaeological canid remains found across Europe and Anatolia shows that a genetically homogeneous dog population was already widely distributed across the region by 15,000 years ago.

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Original study 2: A. Bergström et al., Genomic history of early dogs in Europe, @[email protected] 651, 2026. 🔓 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Genomic history of early dogs in Europe - Nature

Genome-wide analysis shows European dogs existed by 14,200 years ago, were already genetically distinct, received less Neolithic Southwest Asian admixture than humans did and contributed substantially to later European dogs.

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