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Archive Home > 2010 > March > 18 > Discovery puts dog origins in Middle East

Discovery puts dog origins in Middle East

Also, links between first domesticated animal, advances in human society are strengthened

By Nicholas Wade / The Bulletin
March 18, 2010

Researchers have concluded that dogs were probably first domesticated from wolves somewhere in the Middle East, in contrast to an earlier survey suggesting dogs originated in East Asia.

This finding puts the first known domestication — that of dogs — in the same place as the domestication of....

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