Ancient wolves may have self-domesticated by staying near humans for food scraps, gradually evolving into early dogs.

According to scientists, wolves raised by humans cooperate as well with their caretakers as pet dogs do. This suggests that ...

Active or Passive – How Did the Wolf Become a Dog? For decades, there has been debate about how exactly the domestication of the dog began. Indeed, numerous archaeological finds suggest that ...

The research indicates that this self-domestication process could have occurred without human intervention, challenging previous assumptions about how dogs evolved from their wolf ancestors.

separate doggie species to occur among a pack of ancient wolf scavengers. The model showed that over 15,000 years, natural selection could potentially drive dog self-domestication. However ...

It’s hard to imagine that dogs descended from fierce grey wolves—especially when your fat labrador begs for peanut butter, or your poodle snores on the couch. And yet, that’s exactly what ...

While the theory is nothing new, the new research shows it's statistically possible for the wolves to have driven their own domestication into dogs through natural selection. The second ...

The models indicated that dog self-domestication could be driven by natural ... found that early dogs separated from their ancient wolf species 37 percent of the time. If the scavenging animals ...

The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus ... modern dogs are descendants of wolves, though this domestication may have happened twice, producing groups ...