For thousands of years, the line between wolves and dogs has been blurred. Groups of people in different parts of the world, independently of each other, have repeatedly tried to domesticate wild ...

The domestication of dogs began with their ancestors: wolves. Archaeological evidence suggests that the relationship between humans and wolves began over 20,000 years ago during the last Ice Age ...

The dog, Canis familiaris, is a direct descendent of the gray wolf, Canis lupus: In other words, dogs as we know them are domesticated wolves. Not only their behavior changed; domestic dogs are ...

Dogs, on the other hand, are essentially domesticated wolves. A recent episode of CBS’ “60 Minutes” highlighted an intriguing theory about how a branch of the grey wolf tree went rogue ...

Dogs owe their cooperative nature to "the wolf within", the study, of cubs raised alongside people, suggests. But in the course of domestication, those that were submissive to humans were selected ...