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"Normally you think of domestication as something that happens at the hands of humans," said Brian Hare, a Duke University evolutionary anthropologist and co-author of a bonobo research review ...

New research on 11,000-year-old dog skulls is forcing scientists to redraw the timeline of how wolves became our closest animal partners. Instead of a slow, recent march from generic village mutt to ...

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