The history of your dog - when did they evolve?
Posted on September 21st, 2007 by
If you keep a canis lupus familiaris, otherwise known as a dog, you will probably know that she is quite closely related to the wolf. Until recently it was thought that dogs became domesticated from wolves around 15,000 years ago, however, the evidence from mitochondrial DNA studies now suggests that wolves and dogs split into […]
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