Dogs and mankind: Coevolution on the move - An update

Abstract

As an alternative to the domestication hypothesis, it has been proposed that “Wolves met humans in a phase of human apprenticeship to wolf pastoralism and, in a subsequent process of coevolution, wolves turned into dogs." (Schleidt, 1998, p. 4). Here we provide an update in the context of new information, notably on Pleistocene climate and ecology, and new insights from canid and human genetics and genomics.