CultureLab: Adventures of a prehistoric girl – Alice Roberts on her new book Wolf Road
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The Origins of Dogs
We know that dogs came from wolves, so yes, somehow wolves must have ended up living with humans and becoming domesticated dogs. It might have been somebody like Tule finding a helpless wolf pup and looking after it and befriending it or there are wolves coming into scavenge in the camp. So we think about lots of ways in which it happened but what we know absolutely is that our dogs are actually wolves, they were wolves.
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