where was the first dog found and how were they created?

Question

this is a question by my 11 year old daughter she want to know

Answer 1

just tell her that they came about like every other living thing, which ever you beleive either god or evolution

Answer 2

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.

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The dog evolved in the company of humans and cannot exist without them. Even the vast majority living “wild” as village scavengers depend on proximity to humans. That relationship has become so intimate that dogs are often viewed as creatures apart, writes biologist James Serpell. “The domestic dog exists precariously in the no-man’s-land between the human and nonhuman . . . neither person nor beast.” The ancients saw dogs as messengers between the living and the dead. Today dogs are often used in experiments that might threaten human lives. The first dog was called a Wolf-Hybrid

Answer 3

There is a lot of debate about this. Genetecists say that dogs were probably domesticated from wolves somewhere around Siberia between 25000 and 15000 years ago.
Some of the earliest archaeological evidence comes from sites of the Natufian culture in modern Israel where archaeologists found people buried with dogs about 12000 years ago. The sites are Ain Mallaha and Hayonim Terrace.

Answer 4

When humans domesticated the grey wolf they opened the way for the huge variety of dog breeds we see today

MAN'S best friend comes in all shapes and sizes. From the Chihuahua to the Great Dane, the domestic dog is the most diverse mammal species of all, with over 350 distinct breeds for hunting, pulling sledges, tracking, herding and, of course, companionship.

Such diversity led Darwin to think that domestic dogs must have evolved from several wild canines, such as jackals, coyotes and wolves, but in fact we now know that all breeds descended from one species, the grey wolf.

The many breeds we now see from a poodle to a great dane
all had a common ancestor. A Wolf!
All the breeds of dog we now see have come about 'artificially' by selective breeding for certain traits by humans.

Answer 5

They started as wolves, the nearest thing to a wild dog is the Australian Wild Dog "Dingo"

Answer 6

Here is probably more information the an 11 year old would want to know. It looks they are descended from east Asian wolfs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_the_domestic_dog

Answer 7

There are many primitave dogs (pharoh hounds) but no one knows how were they created maybe from Hyenas or Wolves

Answer 8

As far as I know they come from wolves and other wild dogs.Where did wild dogs come from?That is based on your belief God or evolution.

Answer 9

i don't know where they were first found because dogs where all over the place and were first known as food and wild animals!!!!! and god created all living creatures!!!!!!

Answer 10

If dogs evolved from wolves then why are there still wolves

Answer 11

pet dogs evolved from wolves