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 …

Dogs are known to be the first species domesticated by humans, although the geographic
and temporal origin of this process is still under debate in different fields of knowledge. In the …

Abstract The Bonn-Oberkassel dog remains (Upper Pleistocene and 14223+-58 years old)
have been reported more than 100 years ago. Recent re-examination revealed the tooth of …

Abstract Excavations on the Zhokhov Island yielded a small but meaningful collection of
Early Holocene canine faunal remains (MNI= 13). To clarify the morphological …

Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are the most variable-sized mammalian species on
Earth, displaying a 40-fold size difference between breeds. 1 Although dogs of variable size …

Body size is correlated with many critical behavioral and developmental patterns in
carnivores, including domestic dogs. The body masses and bite forces of archaeological …

The domestication of dogs likely occurred in Eurasia by 16,000 years ago, and the initial
peopling of the Americas potentially happened around the same time. Dogs were long …

Extant Canis lupus genetic diversity can be grouped into three phylogenetically distinct
clades: Eurasian and American wolves and domestic dogs. 1 Genetic studies have …

Grey wolves (Canis lupus) are one of the few large terrestrial carnivores that have
maintained a wide geographical distribution across the Northern Hemisphere throughout the …

Morphological and morphometric bone variation between archaeological wolves and the
oldest domestic dogs commonly are used to define species differences. However, reference …