Ancient canine genes push back timeline of dog origins
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Researchers studying ancient dog remains, including a 14,300-year-old jawbone from Gough’s Cave in the UK and a Swiss find, are using genomics and archaeology to trace where dogs came from and how they spread with people, offering new clues about when and where domestication occurred.
- New studies of old dogs help scientists understand where they came from AP News
- Dogs were widely distributed across western Eurasia during the Palaeolithic Nature
- Humans Had Dogs Before They Had Farming, Ancient DNA Confirms The New York Times
- Dogs became man's best friend far earlier than thought, scientists find BBC
- This is when domesticated dogs possibly arrived in the West, new research says abcnews.com
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