The process of canine domestication represents certainly one of the most interesting
questions that evolutionary biology aims to address. A “multiphase” view of this process is …

Here, we describe a partial cranium of a large canid dated at 406.5±2.4 ka from the Middle
Pleistocene of Ponte Galeria (Rome, Italy). The sample represents one of the few Middle …

Morphological and genetic evidence put dog domestication during the Paleolithic, sometime
between 40,000 and 15,000 years ago, with identification of the earliest dogs debated. We …

Phylogeographic patterns in large mammals result from natural environmental factors and
anthropogenic effects, which in some cases include domestication. The grey wolf was once …

Innovative technological approaches are crucial to enhance naturalistic museum collections
and develop information repositories of relevant interest to science, such as threatened …

The Sicilian wolf remained isolated in Sicily from the end of the Pleistocene until its
extermination in the 1930s–1960s. Given its long-term isolation on the island and distinctive …

Dog domestication is still largely unresolved due to time-gaps in the sampling of regions.
Ancient Italian canids are particularly understudied, currently represented by only a few …

The present study examines the prehistoric human skeletal remains retrieved starting from
the 1920s in the deposit of the Farneto rock shelter, situated in the area of the 'Parco dei …

Palaeogenomics is contributing to refine our understanding of many major evolutionary
events at an unprecedented resolution, with relevant impacts in several fields, including …

Mountain regions have long been important for maintaining populations and genetic
diversity of wild species, especially those species that require large areas to sustain viable …