Wolves became dogs via cooperation and reciprocity rather than through competition with humans "I wrote this book to remind people that the wolves we often demonize and persecute through wildlife ...

As even irregular readers of this blog know, I have an abiding fascination with the question of how the wolf became the dog, or in the parlance of text messaging W2D. Why should the consummate ...

Thousands of years ago, humans made a decision that would reshape the planet forever — they began domesticating animals.

New analysis of 11,000-year-old dog skulls is forcing scientists to redraw the timeline of how wolves became the animals that now sleep on our sofas. Instead of a slow, uniform shift from wolf to dog, ...

Watch a wolf documentary for a few minutes, then look at a French Bulldog snoring on someone’s couch. It almost feels impossible that they share the same ancestry. And yet they do. Every Chihuahua, ...