New Theory Links Dog Domestication And Excess Protein
Since ancient hunter-gatherers couldn’t consume all the lean-meat protein they obtained, a sensible choice would have been to feed it to wolves, to keep them healthy while encouraging them to become more dependent on humans for sustenance. And as time passed, evolutionary forces would have worked their magic, gradually transforming tame wolves into even tamer domesticated dogs—or so the Finnish researchers assert, in their imaginative yet science-based reconstruction of dog domestication history. A Remarkably New Paradigm For Dog Domestication This theory of how dogs became domesticate...
Source: ancient-origins.net