Based on claims that dogs are less aggressive and show more sophisticated socio-cognitive
skills compared with wolves, dog domestication has been invoked to support the idea that …

Dogs are trained for a variety of working roles including assistance, protection, and detection
work. Many canine working roles, in their modern iterations, were developed at the turn of …

Although considerable progress has been made in understanding the genetic basis of
morphologic traits (for example, body size and coat color) in dogs and wolves, the genetic …

Due to their convergent evolution, dogs have been suggested as a good model for the
evolution of human social skills, such as tolerance and cooperativeness. However, recent …

Highlights•We assessed cognitive and temperament traits in 8-to 10-week-old
puppies.•Puppies reliably used cooperative-communicative gestures.•Puppies differentiated …

The results of current wolf-dog studies on human-directed behaviors seem to suggest that
domestication has acted on dogs' general attitudes and not on specific socio-cognitive skills …

Dogs' increased human-directed sociability compared to wolves may be the result of
increased oxytocin system activity and decreased stress responses, but comparative studies …

Domesticated animals are generally assumed to display increased sociability toward
humans compared to their wild ancestors. Dogs (Canis familiaris) have a remarkable ability …

Past research has suggested that a variety of factors, phylogenetic and ontogenetic, play a
role in how canines behave during problem-solving tasks and the degree to which the …

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 …