Where Did Dogs Really Come From?

From Charles Darwin's seminal work, "On the Origin of the Good Boys."

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[bunning]

From personal research I can confirm it was not only food that attracted dogs to humans. It was also because we had sofas for them to sleep on.

[michellegaza]

I grew up with cats and got a dog when I was an adult and finally had a yard. I did not fully understand the phrase "man's best friend" until I had a dog in my life. She is so incredibly smart. Even though she knows at least 20 words, we can easily communicate via gestures in a way I've never seen another animal do with a human. I love my cats just as much, but it is not the same. The best is imitation when we play: she pretends she's Godzilla and stomps around with her front feet only or we have a dance party with some thumpin base and she might as well have glow sticks on her collar.

[cattibingo]

They have been good boys for the past 27, 000 years

[redseve]

Man I remember seeing a video a while back explaining how canids have something unique about their genetics, I forget if it was their mitochondria or rna or whatever exactly, but it allows them to express new traits much quicker than most other creatures, which explained why dogs comes in so many different sizes and shapes while cats are all very similar, at least comparably, I was hoping this video would touch on that.

[CharlesGriswold]

Where do dogs come from? Well, when a mommy dog and a daddy dog love each other very much...

[caerdwyn]

Where do dogs come from? Easy. Dogs come from the back yard into the kitchen where they supervise cooking activities and perform quality assurance testing upon selected canine-safe foods.

[chaoslab]

"Survival of the friendliest".

[duanesamuelson]

I don't remember where it was published but there was an article proposing that dogs and humans domesticated each other...and that the relationship actually goes back somewhere in the 30 to 40k year range. Humans learned cooperative hunting strategies from wolves and wolves gained an alliance with ranged weapons.
No idea how accurate it is...however it makes sense on a few levels.

[chloejohnson]

Where do they really come from? Usually from a friend, who found him on Craigslist, because someone had puppies out in the Central Valley.

[bldeagle]

can we get a video about maritime measurements? knots, fathoms, nautical
miles, leagues and any other measurements specific to the maritime
trades?

[silverjohn]

I'm not sure I understand how the fact that the original foxes coming from PEI negates the entire experiment. You can argue it affects any conclusions that comes about how quickly a domestication event could occur but the basic premise, that you can select for domestication, remains.

[fvckyoutubescensorshipandt]

9:20 So instead of the quick brown fox jumping over a lazy dog he decided to piss in his owner's coffee instead? What a legend.

[THall-vicp]

How about in the beginning wolves "domesticated themselves" by learning how to live around humans, then when humans moved, some wolves were taken with them resulting in a founder effect and domestication syndrome?

[mikedusold]

Our dog used to camp out in our bedroom and stare at the closet where my wife kept her fox fur. We thought it was crazy. Now we know it was sitting Shiva.

[haroon]

Dogs had 1000s of years to evolve naturally. The fox expirement was hampered that they were trying to fast track evolution so chances of evolving wild animals into fully domesticated animals in 30-40 years is a wildly over optimistic. But it’s still a valid experiment to see how quickly behaviours and attributes can changes with outside influences.

[ks]

good thing Belyayev also did the same experiments with wild rats breeding them for both tameness and agression (which still exist and used today for research)

the foxes were a nice human piece but the rat experiment is the much more scientific one

[Brandon-dyus]

Wtf dude I was just looking at a dog meme about how the wolf went for some scraps at a campfire and then 10k years later you see weiner dogs in knit sweaters.

[chrislong]

On a side note, Simon, I think you'd be perfect to assume David Attenborough's role as Britain's voice for the planet...

Your research team, writers, and of course, you yourself, carry a weight of integrity in your presentations that match Sir David's with ease and I often find myself asking questions during one of your videos only to have it answered momentarily!

Keep up your good work and I'm really glad you've found a forum for your amazing talents! You CAN go bigger though and bring all of that precision and accuracy to bigger projects and YES!!!! even a Knighthood! ;-)
Dream big, man!!! You're very good and worth it!

[javierortiz]

Where did dogs really come from?

They all come from goodness, they're all good doggos. Do your research Simon!

[cheretodd]

I tell my chihuahua, all the time, how he's descended from the mighty wolf. I think it's important to nourish his self esteem. 💗☺