Our bond with dogs may go back more than 27,000 years
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 13:10
in Biology & Nature
Dogs' special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient Taimyr wolf bone. Earlier genome-based estimates have suggested that the ancestors of modern-day dogs diverged from wolves no more than 16,000 years ago, after the last Ice Age.