Animal domestication is considered a complex and multistage process that altered
behaviorally, morphologically, and physiologically the domesticates relative to their wild …

The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Dogs were the first domestic animal, but little is known about their population history and to
what extent it was linked to humans. We sequenced 27 ancient dog genomes and found that …

The domestic dog, as a highly successful domestication model, is well known as a favored
human companion. Exploring its domestication history should provide great insight into our …

The evolutionary history of the wolf-like canids of the genus Canis has been heavily
debated, especially regarding the number of distinct species and their relationships at the …

Although the domestic dog's origin is still unclear, this lineage is believed to have been
domesticated from an extinct population of gray wolves, which is expected to be more …

Dingoes are wild canids living in Australia, originating from domestic dogs. They have lived
isolated from both the wild and the domestic ancestor, making them a unique model for …

Cave sediments have been shown to preserve ancient DNA but so far have not yielded the
genome-scale information of skeletal remains. We retrieved and analyzed human and …

Domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) are the most variable-sized mammalian species on
Earth, displaying a 40-fold size difference between breeds. 1 Although dogs of variable size …

Background Domestication and introduction of dairy animals facilitated the permanent
human occupation of the Tibetan Plateau. Yet the history of dairy pastoralism in the Tibetan …