Competing theories explain how dogs came to be domesticated from wolves. Now, a new study adds further support to the idea that they domesticated themselves.
“When females were selecting mates, they also had to select males that had a similar tameness to themselves,” study co-author Alex Capaldi, a mathematician and statistician at James Madison University in Virginia, told Live Science. “So if both of those processes are in play, then it is possible for the self-domestication hypothesis to beat the time constraint critique.”
“Snax and chill.”
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