The domestication of animals led to a major shift in human subsistence patterns, from a
hunter–gatherer to a sedentary agricultural lifestyle, which ultimately resulted in the …

Dogs were the first domestic animal, but little is known about their population history and to
what extent it was linked to humans. We sequenced 27 ancient dog genomes and found that …

Advances in the isolation and sequencing of ancient DNA have begun to reveal the
population histories of both people and dogs. Over the last 10,000 y, the genetic signatures …

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 …

Dogs are the most phenotypically diverse mammalian species, and they possess more
known heritable disorders than any other non-human mammal. Efforts to catalog and …

Dogs have been essential to life in the Siberian Arctic for over 9,500 y, and this tight link
between people and dogs continues in Siberian communities. Although Arctic Siberian …

Background Domestication and introduction of dairy animals facilitated the permanent
human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau. Yet the history of dairy pastoralism in the Tibetan …

Simple Summary The Earth is under increasing pressure from the burgeoning global human
population and the subsequent rise in demand for food and a myriad of other finite …

Recent studies have suggested that dogs were domesticated during the Last Glacial
Maximum (LGM) in Siberia, which contrasts with previous proposed domestication centers …

Current evidence suggests domestications of the dog were incipient developments in many
areas of the world. In southwest Asia this process took place in the Late Epipalaeolithic …