Dogs might have been domesticated pets

 

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Joel Kontinen 

According to evolution, people can not eat a lot of meat. What should they do with the bits left over?

A new study shows they gave it to wolves during the ice age. They became pets, this is what Maria Lahtinen of the Finnish Food Authority in Helsinki and her colleagues suggest. 

According to evolution timeline, that dogs split from their wolf ancestors between 27,000 and and 40, 000 years ago, The oldest dog burial is from from 14,200 years ago, suggesting dogs were firmly installed as pets by then.

But scientist do not know where that took place.

According to Genesis, wolves and dogs belong to the same species.

Source:

Marshall, Michael. 2021. Humans may have domesticated dogs by accident by sharing excess meat.  New Scientist 7 January