Friday, January 27th, 2012

Ancient Skull Holds Clues to Dog Domestication

Skull of the Razboinichya canid. The black arrow indicates a sampling location for carbon-14 dating. PLOS One image.

A 33,000-year-old skull of a “wolf on the way to becoming a dog” was found in a Siberian cave. Evolutionary Biologist Susan Crockford, co-author of a study about the skull in PLoS ONE, discusses why the discovery challenges common beliefs about dog domestication.

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Susan Crockford
Evolutionary Biologist
Adjunct Professor, University of Victoria
British Columbia, Canada

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