The First Dog

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In short: Ancient DNA, Ice Age burials and wolf genomes suggest that dogs emerged from grey wolves among hunter-gatherers through a slow, multiphase relationship whose timing and origins are still debated.

A 2:14 short film in the series “Strange Biology”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.

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