The Evolution of the Wolf to Dog

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The leap from wolf to dog seems to have happened pretty quickly. We really don't know where it happened, but we're pretty sure it wasn't North America. There's a couple main hypotheses out there for how it happened. If this is true, dogs might have been a domestic invention. It would have meant raising wolf pups when they were really young.

Dogs were the first domesticated animal in history, emerging from wolves some 20,000 years ago. But how did wolves become dogs? To find the answer, scientists have to play with a lot of puppies.

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