How did the dog become domesticated???????

Answer 1

About 12,000 years ago hunter-gatherers in what is now Israel placed a body in a grave with its hand cradling a pup. Whether it was a dog or a wolf can’t be known. Either way, the burial is among the earliest fossil evidence of the dog’s domestication. Scientists know the process was under way by about 14,000 years ago but do not agree on why. Some argue that humans adopted wolf pups and that natural selection favored those less aggressive and better at begging for food. Others say dogs domesticated themselves by adapting to a new niche—human refuse dumps. Scavenging canids that were less likely to flee from people survived in this niche, and succeeding generations became increasingly tame. According to biologist Raymond Coppinger: “All that was selected for was that one trait—the ability to eat in proximity to people.”

At the molecular level not much changed at all: The DNA makeup of wolves and dogs is almost identical.



excerpt taken from the National Geographic article "From Wolf to Woof"

Answer 2

Wolves discovered they were more likely to get food by hanging around Neanderthals, who would throw them their scraps. Men in turn realised if they trained the wolves (however crudely it may have been done), they could in turn use the canines for help with hunting. The wolves also learned that if they helped to hunt but tried to run off with the kill, the food didn't last very long and they might just get a spear in the butt for their trouble!

Answer 3

I am positive that women domesticated dogs with food. We are now working on domesticating men.
I am just teasing here so do not throw any tempers out there!

Answer 4

Over the years, man and dog became close, dog liked man, man like dog. Man found he could train dog to fetch, sit, beg etc, hence the dog became domesticated.

Answer 5

Read this book: 'Dogs - A startling new understanding on canine origin, behaviour and evolution' by Raymond & Lorna Coppinger.

It will give you a great introduction.

Answer 6

Peanut butter

Answer 7

recently i heard it wasn't the cavemen cruely capturing them and taming them but it was the wolves who became interested in humans and came closer to what then was civilization to eat what the humans had thrown away etc..... and the rest is history. ;-)

Answer 8

wolves who hung around people....the one's who were less afraid of people hung around more and their puppies hund around etc. etc. Now we've bred them into bizzare disfigured states..anyway, that's how the theory goes.

Answer 9

man found out chicken and beef tasted better...so they quit hunting them...good luck

Answer 10

erm, they escaped da far east