Learn how DNA from 14,200-year-old dogs shows they lived in Europe before farming and traces their ancestry to eastern wolves ...

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

The story of how dogs transitioned from wild predators to humanity’s most loyal companions is a tale that spans tens of thousands of years. While the full details are still shrouded in mystery, ...

Thousands of years ago, humans began a revolutionary process that would change civilization forever — animal domestication. From wolves becoming dogs to livestock shaping agriculture, this ...

Wolves became dogs via cooperation and reciprocity rather than through competition with humans "I wrote this book to remind people that the wolves we often demonize and persecute through wildlife ...

Several years ago, for example (refer to my blogs here, here, and here), researchers in Japan suggested that wolves, in becoming dogs, had hijacked the human mother-infant oxytocin feedback system ...