Dog Domestication 1

Dogs domesticate themselves because the more trusting ones remain at human garbage dumps and eat more food than the wilder ones.

This video clip is from PBS NOVA "Dogs and More Dogs". http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/dogs/about.html There is also another PBS video, Nature "Dogs That Changed the World" that might be more recent and have more research behind it.

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Education

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• dogs
• dog
• domestication
• evolution

[Needs2Know]

I for one believe in a more advanced civilization existing before 10,000 BC which is apparently when dogs were domesticated. I think how ever it happened it probably happened in one area where people were really trying to breed for domestication in a controlled environment. On Dogs Decoded the geneticist even said they go back 100,000 years! For anyone who is into Zecharia Sitchin's work you would know that there were more advanced civilizations around then.

[gregconquest]

@Needs2Know The explanation here, though, did not involve alien civilizations intervening in human history for its theory of dog domestication, Needs2know. Aliens are not needed in this case.

[Skywalker91]

3:50 - Now we know it's not theory, they have done that very thing with Silver foxes in Siberia. Jus aftert a few generations of breeding only the tamest foxes, they all loved people, started to bark, to wag their tails, got weird colors, curled or short tails, short legs, floppy ears... all only because they selected for tameness.

[gregconquest]

@Skywalker91 Not a theory, Skywalker? Adding confirmation does not make a theory become something else, it just makes it a stronger theory. The sun being at the center of the solar system (heliocentrism), microbes causing disease, the evolution of life, General and special Relativity, Quantum physics, . . . all of these are theories. Theory is the goal of science. Producing and refining theories is what science does.

[simlover801]

is john Linthgow narrating this?!

[gregconquest]

Yes, simlover, John Lithgow is the narrator. I added a link to the PBS web page in the info section at the top right.

[SylvaAnsuz]

Personally I think that Coppinger's theory makes the most sense. I read his book and am pretty convinced, based on his studies of wild feral dog populations.

[Needs2Know]

@THISISAVERYCOOLNAME

Yeah in Siberia they are experimenting with thousands of silver foxes(see Dogs Decoded). It's kinda sad. But when you look at modern breeding programs it's no different. The non desirables get euthanized. "but my Chawawa is soooo cute!" Yeah. We humans are so selfish it makes me disgusted to be one at times.

[Soultaker1234567]

i have to watch this for school :(

[THISISAVERYCOOLNAME]

taking baby wolf away from mama wolf is wrong, especilly in the name of science!!

[MrFreash24s]

Nice Vid!

[defiythelie]

more than likely some wolfs learned to follow man for food and man and wolf lived side by side much like wild monkeys in india today. And after some time bonds were made, man could of tooken in wolfs that ere kiced out of the pack and so on.