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Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs

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The Origins of Dogs

The ancestral Australians arrived there 40,000 years ago. So that was later wave, later wave of people. The New Guinea singing dog is a totally isolated, domesticated dog but has been isolated alone for thousands and thousands of years functions as a wild animal. What we're always missing when I'm like laying in bed at night as an archaeologist thinking about dogs, what I think about is like, why? Right.

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