Extinct Human Species (w/ Elizabeth Sawchuk and Mary Prendergast) and Moody Teenage Dogs

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4.6 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2020

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Researchers Elizabeth Sawchuk and Mary Prendergast will talk about the lessons we’ve learned from amazing new discoveries of extinct human species. Plus: learn about how dogs can be moody teenagers, too.

Dogs can be annoying teenagers, too by Steffie Drucker

Adolescence is ruff for dogs too. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/nu-air051220.php
Teenage dogs? Evidence for adolescent-phase conflict behaviour and an association between attachment to humans and pubertal timing in the domestic dog | Biology Letters. (2020). Biology Letters. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0097

Additional resources from Elizabeth Sawchuk and Mary Prendergast:

Sawchuk, E., & Prendergast, M. (2019, December 23). Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story. The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/archaeological-discoveries-are-happening-faster-than-ever-before-helping-refine-the-human-story-128743
Lipson, M., Ribot, I., Mallick, S., Rohland, N., Olalde, I., Adamski, N., Broomandkhoshbacht, N., Lawson, A. M., López, S., Oppenheimer, J., Stewardson, K., Asombang, R. N., Bocherens, H., Bradman, N., Culleton, B. J., Cornelissen, E., Crevecoeur, I., de Maret, P., Fomine, F. L. M., … Reich, D. (2020). Ancient West African foragers in the context of African population history. Nature, 577(7792), 665–670. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-1929-1
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Mary Prendergast. (2019). Slu.edu. https://www.slu.edu/madrid/academics/faculty/mary-prendergast.php
Springer Verlag. (2020, February 15). Elizabeth SAWCHUK | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Alberta, Edmonton | UAlberta | Department of Anthropology. ResearchGate; ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Elizabeth_Sawchuk

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:05.1	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about how
0:09.5	dogs can be moody teenagers too. Then researchers Elizabeth Saatchup and Mary Prendergast will talk
0:15.9	about the lessons we've learned from amazing new discoveries of extinct human species. Along
0:21.1	with some new questions they've raised about why our species is the only kind of human around today.
0:27.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:29.0	Here's a word of warning for dog people.
0:32.0	A new study has found that Here's a word of warning for dog people.
0:32.8	A new study has found that just like human children,
0:36.5	your dog will go through a period of frustrating defiance
0:40.1	with the onset of puberty.
0:42.0	That's right. Puppies become moody teenagers too.
0:46.0	To come to this conclusion, British researchers studied the behavior of more than 400 guide dogs in training,
0:52.2	who had all been trained in the same way.
0:54.9	The breeds included labs, golden retrievers, and crossbreeds of the two.
0:59.7	The team first tested the dog's obedience at five and eight months old.
1:04.0	For each test, the dog's caretaker and a stranger would tell the pooch to sit.
1:09.2	Sure enough, the puppies were more likely to dawdle or disobey at eight months than at five months.
1:15.0	Well, actually, they only disobeyed their caretaker.
1:19.0	Their responsiveness to the stranger actually improved.
1:23.0	Teenagers, am I right?
1:25.0	The same was true when they asked the humans to rate how easy the dogs were to train.
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