When the Man waked up he said, “What is Wild Dog doing here?” And the Woman said, “His name is not Wild Dog any more, but the First Friend, because he will be our friend for always and always and always.” Rudyard Kipling Dog research has blossomed in recent years. New findings concerning dog cognition, sociability, and domestication have expanded our understandings of “man's best friend”. Today share with you a recent article which helps to pin down the origins and initial dispersal of domestic dogs into North America. Reference: “Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas” by Angela R. Perri, Tatiana R. Feuerborn, Laurent A. F. Frantz, Greger Larson, Ripan S. Malhi, David J. Meltzer, and Kelsey E. Witt, 25 January 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. If you enjoyed this podcast- please click LIKE, Subscribe, Share, and comment. Podcast: https://anchor.fm/milk-of-audhumla Website coming soon: https://www.themilkofaudhumla.com/ If you would like to support this channel you can follow the link below: https://www.patreon.com/milkofaudhumla As always, thank you for joining me, and Stay Gold. Further Reading: David Ian Howe- davidianhowe.com A. H. Freedman et al., Genome sequencing highlights the dynamic early history of dogs. PLoS Genet. 10, e1004016 (2014). G. Larson et al., Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 109, 8878–8883 (2012). A. Perri, A wolf in dog’s clothing: Initial dog domestication and Pleistocene wolf variation. J. Archaeol. Sci. 68, 1–4 (2016). A. Perri et al., New evidence of the earliest domestic dogs in the Americas. Am. Antiq. 84, 68–87 (2019). M. Germonpré et al., Fossil dogs and wolves from palaeolithic sites in Belgium, the Ukraine and Russia: Osteometry, ancient DNA and stable isotopes. J. Archaeol. Sci. 36, 473–490 (2009). M. Germonpré et al., Palaeolithic and prehistoric dogs and Pleistocene wolves from Yakutia: Identification of isolated skulls. J. Archaeol. Sci. 78, 1–19 (2017). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)
