Interesting article on dog/human link up origins

[skycat 6,174]

A while ago I started a thread about the origins of the dog/human relationship, and recently discovered this article: an interesting theory:

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/humanitys-best-friend-how-dogs-may-have-helped-humans-beat-the-neanderthals/257145/

[marshman 7,758]

It's an interesting theory Skycat but I did hear another theory that Neanderthal man never truly died out. So they reckon one posiblity was that the inter bred with our ancestors and where bred out. This is where the Ginger gene comes from lol.

[Ratreeper 441]

It is interesting and very believable. There is a great book I read (that I can't remember the bloody name of) that is more like a scientific journal of canine behaviour and biology, which goes in to a lot of detail about how dogs and humans worked together and how both adapted as a consequence. It is odd to think how stunted human society would have been without the help of dogs, even today a lot of farming wouldn't be viable without collies in very hilly areas.

[Born Hunter 17,959]

That's an interesting read Penny. Curious that our ancestors domesticated dogs but their Neanderthal cousins didn't. You would think that seeing the advantages they would have?

[Ratreeper 441]

That's an interesting read Penny. Curious that our ancestors domesticated dogs but their Neanderthal cousins didn't. You would think that seeing the advantages they would have?

 

Some cultures still can't see the benefit of toilet roll, that's just as difficult to understand imo

[mickmck 716]

It's an interesting theory Skycat but I did hear another theory that Neanderthal man never truly died out. So they reckon one posiblity was that the inter bred with our ancestors and where bred out. This is where the Ginger gene comes from lol.

i think lab would agree with that , i wonder if they all just f****d off to scotland

[tinytiger 875]

theres also a theory that the were domesticated by "homo erectus" which was ancestral to neanderthals and ourselves.

[tinytiger 875]

A while ago I started a thread about the origins of the dog/human relationship, and recently discovered this article: an interesting theory:

 

http://www.theatlant...erthals/257145/

 

another article you might find interesting...http://newguinea-singing-dog-conservation.org/tidbits/OriginOfTheDog.pdf

Edited June 26, 2012 by tinytiger

[mintstick999 485]

Brilliant link Penny, dogs have learn't humans so much in the past that's why i get so pissed off when you here of today's humans ill treating them instead of learning from them...

[turtlehead 7]

there is a theory that dogs/wolves almost domesticated themselves.by that i mean they learned that living on the outskirts of human camps and villages meant they could scavenge for easy pickings and eventually became quite tame.the friendliest most adventurous canines getting the most food and therefor able to produce stronger,bigger litters.evolution in action.

i read that in richard dawkins the greatest show on earth.