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Dogs are described as 'man's best friend' but that close-relationship is more to do with how women treated them with affection and named them, a study finds. Washington State University researchers searched extensive collections of writings by anthropologists on traditional, subsistence-level societies around the world. The team discovered a pattern in traditional societies where women were more involved with dogs - humans became more useful to canines. In traditional societies - which act as a mirror for early human history - the more a woman is involved in the care of a dog, the more it becomes 'part of the family' - including having a name and sleeping in its owner's bed, the authors discovered.
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A cross-cultural analysis found several factors may have played a role in building the relationship between humans and dogs, including temperature, hunting and surprisingly - gender. The analysis used ethnographic information from 144 traditional, subsistence-level societies from all over the globe. People were more likely to regard dogs as a type of person if the dogs had a special relationship with women--such as having names and being treated as family.