How Humans and Dogs Evolved Together

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This video looks into the journey that humans and dogs have taken together and how it has shaped both parties.

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[cevinzeke]

You ever look at your dog after a hunt, walk or just while they are sitting there and realize how miraculous an entity they are? The kindness they show us and us to them is ancient. Dogs aren’t just our best friends, we are brothers and sisters. I’m buying my dog a steak tomorrow. She’s been earning it for thousands of years.

[pacfic]

Man’s best friend is also his oldest friend.

[aaa-gege]

"For example, they can reliably respond to pointing gestures"
My dog when I point somewhere: *looks at my hand*

[GreenFors]

Let's just all sit down and appreciate how much subtle editing there is in these vids. Like how the pictures will zoom in slowly all the time, and how sometime how there will often be multiple layers that zoom at different speeds creating a sense of depth that really bring things to life.

[andrewheffel]

Dog good. Help hunt. Guard camp. Pull sled. Loyal friend.

[nickcigic]

Proto dogs: non-territorial endurance hunters with floofy ears
Early humans: non-territorial endurance hunters with dexterous fingers

...Did we just become best friends!?

[AverageAlien]

Fun fact: dogs love humans more than they love other dogs

[hitindahead]

Life just wouldn’t be complete without our doggie friends. They’re the best.

[kcobra]

So dogs have been humanity's oldest, friendliest, and best ally

[guardyangel]

Having a dog to share my life with, i can indeed say that he is the best company a man can have. He just reads me like a book and i read him. We complement each other's lifes. Love you Crumble.

[hundejahre]

Anyone else only get about 1/2 through the video before they had to go find their dogs and play with them a bit?

[chickadeestevenson]

Meanwhile cat.
Hey there...
You got a lot of mice here, mind if I settle down and ya know, just hang out and kill the mice, and oh your bed is nice and warm and so is your seat.
Humans:
Yes, my feline overlord

[steviereedeker]

I believe that the main reason why we start keeping dogs around are : their understanding of team work, their strong points that where our weak points like smell and hearing, and the protection they offered, their ability to comunicate with humans better than most other animals and of course those big puppy eyes that Fools our brain that its a baby.

[jasona]

dogs : good ears, good nose
humans : good brains and hands.

well we make good hunting teams.

[Nmethyltransferase]

Human: "I have 15 copies of the AMY1 gene. I can eat _all_ the carbs!"

Saluki: "Oh wow... Really? Go on, tell me more..."

[MarkMasters...]

To that person that had the patience 1000's of years ago to pet, hold and Love that First Dog....Thank You. Thank you. Thank you.🙏🐕

[Botanifiles]

I watched this while picking ticks off my dog while he licked my foot, co-evolution at its finest

[pagesegovia]

My dogs have gotten me through my darkest days in life, probably as they've been doing for humanity for countless ages

[xostler]

I also find it interesting that pre-farming humans and dogs shared a persistence hunting style.
Just the fact that we decided to share that niche with dogs instead of out hunting them is so insane to me!

[mstalcup]

The oxytocin component in the human-puppy interaction many of us are familiar with would have been a powerful motivator for people to spend time with camp wolf pups around 30, 000 years ago. They have shaped us as we have shaped them.