The Evolution of Canids ~ with David Ian Howe

DAVID IAN HOWE is an 'ethnocynologist' whose specialty is the study of dogs and wolves within human cultural contexts. He is an archaeologist who has uncovered hundreds of ancient tribal dog burials in the United States.

David has contributed to TedEd and is a co-host of the popular  'A Life In Ruins' archaeology podcast. He also runs the @ethnocynology instagram feed.

MARK from Evolution Soup catches up with David for a new fully-illustrated interview about the biological family of animals known as canids - wolves, dogs, jackals and foxes. What are their evolutionary origins? How did wild wolves become man's best friend? All this and more!

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[DadMaster]

This was great! I’m really interested in this relationship between dogs and man. Good stuff!

[PifflePrattle]

This conversation really got me thinking and I stated writing a comment that seemed destined to become a long and rambling tome. So I wiped it.
Thanks for stimulating my mind in a direction it likes.

[Kalulu_Ayiti]

while working from home your podcast and channel have been a treat

[profharveyherrera]

Good to hear David talking about the domestication of dogs! Great video

[Nmethyltransferase]

9:08 It looks like one of Hayao Miyazaki's hallucinations.

[zebedeemadness]

Could have also been a blend of the flight and adoption, example if a non alpha female got pregnant and was kicked out the pack by the alpha pair, then resulted to going to humans camps for scrap food, then as the pup's matured, the female brought them with her into the camp and some pup's being more human friendly than other, stayed around camp. You can take a wolf pup and imprint it to humans, back then they wasn't expecting a fully trained house dog, it would have lived a semi-wild nomadic life living around camp doing it's own thing. People in Africa are doing the same thing with wild caught hyena cub's today to live with human. I mean it's not advisable, but it does show how easy it can happen.

[ehbendisdonc]

Wonderful video. Thank you! Though I thought wolves and other dogs were descendants of African wild dog-type species ?

[dongeonmaster]

With all the wild canine species in the world why were wolves the only contributors to modern dogs?

It seems like many species would have had similar potential.

[enlightenedrogue]

Coyotes are the most adaptable canid on the planet...

[dongeonmaster]

Oops. Raccoon dogs live in Asia not South America.