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Toward understanding dog evolutionary and domestication history.
Comptes rendus biologies - 1 Mar 2011
Galibert Francis, Quignon Pascale, Hitte Christophe, André Catherine
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Dog domestication was probably started very early during the Upper paleolithic period (~35,000 BP), thus well before any other animal or plant domestication. This early process, probably unconscious, is called proto-domestication to distinguish it from the real domestication process that has been dated around 14,000 BC. Genomic DNA analyses have shown recently that domestication started in the Middle East and...
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