The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are ...

For one thing, the wolf was domesticated at a ... long enough to evolve into the domestic dog? The short version is that we often think of evolution as being the survival of the fittest, where ...

Scientists—and plenty of doting dog owners—have long wondered when and where wolves began their evolution to become ... some important insights into wolf genetics. More than 80 researchers ...

Although many questions remain, the new data will be a valuable jumping-off point for scientists who are still trying to solve the many mysteries of wolf evolution and dog domestication ...

Roughly 30,000 to 15,000 years ago, the first dogs ... the evolution of red and timber wolves in North America, Sacks said. However, he added, the paper’s evidence for two sources of wolf ...