Dogs first domesticated in Europe?

Adam Khor

http://www.sci-news.com/genetics/science-dogs-domesticated-europe-mtdna-01550.html

Wibbs

I'd reckon it wasn't a single event, more a series of events that has happened in different times and places over *sticks neck out* 30,000 years(if not 50) and that the European "dog" is just the one that survived down to today. Likely because like the explosion of art and culture in Eurasia it was down to a tipping point of population size where such ideas rather than fading with one generation/group transmitted and stuck.

Manach

Perhaps at some stage we can determine when the Cat domesticated humans.

Adam Khor

Manach wrote: »

Perhaps at some stage we can determine when the Cat domesticated humans.

Cats already had an advantage- we had been fascinated with their kin for thousands of years. You see lots of lions and leopards in cave paintings- but surprisingly few wolves.

Wibbs

Adam Khor wrote: »

Cats already had an advantage- we had been fascinated with their kin for thousands of years. You see lots of lions and leopards in cave paintings- but surprisingly few wolves.

Good point. We don't see many humans either, or less than you'd expect.