The Domestication of Dogs (Encore)

Everything Everywhere Daily

Gary Arndt

History, Education

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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It has been said that a dog is a man’s best friend. This might be true, but…..why. How was it that this particular animal developed such a special relationship with humans? How did the domestication process take place, and where did it happen? …and how is it that there are so many different breeds of dogs that call came from the same original source? Learn more about the domestication of dogs and how it happened on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Travel By Design Podcast Enjoy first-hand stories from the creative minds behind some world’s most extraordinary hotels on the Travel by Design podcast. Newspapers.com Newspapers.com is like a time machine. Dive into their extensive online archives to explore history as it happened. With over 800 million digitized newspaper pages spanning three centuries, Newspapers.com provides an unparalleled gateway to the past, with papers from the US, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond. Use the code “EverythingEverywhere” at checkout to get 20% off a publisher extra subscription at newspapers.com. ButcherBox ButcherBox is the perfect solution for anyone looking to eat high-quality, sustainably sourced meat without the hassle of going to the grocery store. With ButcherBox, you can enjoy a variety of grass-fed beef, heritage pork, free-range chicken, and wild-caught seafood delivered straight to your door every month. ButcherBox.com/Daily Subscribe to the podcast! https://link.chtbl.com/EverythingEverywhere?sid=ShowNotes -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Peter Bennett & Cameron Kieffer Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Update your podcast app at newpodcastapps.com Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.
0:04.0	It's been said that a dog is man's best friend.
0:10.0	This might be true, but why? How is it that this particular animal developed such a special relationship with humans?
0:17.0	How did they go from being wild to domesticated? And how is it there are so many different breeds of dogs that all came from the same original source.
0:25.0	Learn more about the domestication of dogs and how it happened on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. daily. The story of humans and dogs goes back to before the dawn of civilization when our ancestors were hunters and gatherers.
0:52.0	Dogs were the very first animal ever domesticated. when our ancestors were hunters and gatherers.
0:52.6	Dogs were the very first animal ever domesticated by humans.
0:56.2	They were domesticated long before horses, cattle, sheep, or even cats.
1:00.8	Whenever we go back that far, details become sketchy because we have no written or even oral records.
1:06.0	It was the onset of DNA analysis that gave us our first real glimpse of when dogs were first domesticated and where they probably came from.
1:15.0	The domesticated dog has the scientific name Canis lupus familiaris.
1:19.8	One of the most shocking things about domestic dogs that not everyone knows is that all domestic
1:24.6	dogs are the same species.
1:28.0	As radically different as dog breeds are, they are all fundamentally the same thing. A 120-pound Irish wolfhound is the same species as a 5-pound chihuahua.
1:38.0	This is seen in the fact that different breeds of dogs can interbreed with each other.
1:42.0	One of the definitions of a species,
1:44.4	although it can be a bit fuzzy around the edges, is the ability to breed with other
1:48.7	members of the same species. Birds might look as different from one another as dogs do, but birds don't interbreed.
1:56.2	The closest living wild relative of domestic dogs are gray wolves or timber wolves.
2:01.2	Today they can be found in North America and Northern Eurasia. The point
2:05.5	when dogs genetically split off from wolves occurred about 20 to 40,000 years ago.
2:10.4	This was around the last glacial maximum. This period doesn't necessarily represent the point
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