Ep. 466: Direwolves and Ancient Hunting Dogs
The MeatEater Podcast
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The Origins of Domestication
We're very similar to wolves in lots of ways, and we would have seen and known wolves on the landscape for tens of thousands of years prior to domestication. So the question is why now? Yeah. What, what, what drives domestication to occur? Was it an accident that they domesticate themselves around that time or was there something else at play? I'm quite envious of those people who are essentially kind of isolated in Siberia. They got to hunt the woolly rhinoceros.
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